Out of the Storm

When a Category 5 hurricane tears through New Orleans, the levees break and the city drowns. Naomi Johnson—a Black paramedic who refuses to abandon her post—races against collapsing streets and rising waters to save whoever she can. Camila Reyes—a conservative Latina mother desperate to shield her young son—flees a crumbling home while hiding the truth about who she really is.

Their paths collide in the chaos of evacuation. Strangers at first, Naomi and Camila become reluctant allies, forced to navigate flooded highways, hostile shelters, and a city stripped bare of safety nets. Every step toward survival binds them closer, until an unspoken connection becomes something neither expected: love in the eye of the storm.

But outside their fragile bond, the world is watching. The disaster has become political theater—lines of race, class, and faith sharpen into weapons, and secrets can be as dangerous as floodwaters. To hold onto each other, Naomi and Camila must risk exposure, betrayal, and the judgment of a society already on edge.

Raw, urgent, and unforgettable, Out of the Storm is a heart-pounding novel of survival and desire, where resilience is tested and love itself becomes an act of defiance.