Genre: Racy Romance / Suspense

Originally printed in 1976.

STORM WARNINGS

It was born in the Caribbean, fashioned of winds that swirled above the sea, gathering in strength and intensity. The prevailing winds rushing into a low pressure area, fueled by the rotation of the Earth itself, began their counterclockwise spiral.

There was a hollow center to the winds, the eye.

Men named her Hurricane Hedda.

She picked up forward momentum as she reached into the temperate zone. She brushed by Cape Hatteras and took off as though it had been a springboard, moving north and eastward.

Dunes Point lay directly in its path.

Transcribed by Kurt Brugel & Douglas Vaughan

Scratchboard book cover illustration by Kurt Brugel