Victoria meets a man who will not just change her life, but her entire conception of reality. Their relationship threatens to carve a swath of destruction around them. These two outsiders, drawn together by the simple beauty and deadly destruction lurking on the Great Plains, must decide how much they'll sacrifice in order to stay together.

It all begins with footprints...

Tornado researcher Victoria Thomas discovers an impossible set of footprints in a muddy field near Memphis. They indicate that a man walked away unharmed after being engulfed by the full fury of a twister. A year later, Victoria finds an identical set of mysterious tracks in Kansas and becomes obsessed with finding this odd wanderer.

When she finally does find Ben Fulgar, Victoria can't believe her own eyes or his improbable story--he claims to have wandered the earth for centuries, from tornado to tornado. She'll risk her life (and walk across Kansas) to prove to herself that the world operates according to rational rules. During their adventures on the prairie, their relationship intensifies into a love that will be challenged by the ultimate forces of nature.