TO CATCH A STORM

The lives of three people—a professor, a private detective, and a cop—intertwine as a search to find a missing man unfolds in and around Iowa City.

Eve Roth is a professor studying atmospheric physics in an effort to understand weather phenomena because a tornado carried her father away when she was 9. She has a great life, a job she loves, and a family she holds close—a husband, Matthew Moore; a best friend, Natalia Flores; and a beloved father-in-law, Earl, who's had a stroke and lives with her and Matthew. But then one day, while she's flying her $3.2 million mobile air lab above a rainstorm at 20,000 feet, everything crumbles. Matthew, a chemistry professor, hasn't been seen all day, and his Tesla is found burning, creating a black cloud that was visible from her position above the storm. “How does a car burn in the middle of a rainstorm? On purpose,” Eve thinks when she sees a video of the car. Soon, Jonah Kendrick, a psychic detective, shows up at Eve’s door saying he’d dreamed of Matthew being held in a barn, and he wants to help find him, especially since he’s already desperately searching for his own niece, Celina, and he thinks the cases might be related. Max Summerlin, an investigator for the Iowa City Police Department—Jonah’s college roommate and until very recently his best friend—had been searching for Celina with Jonah, but that came to an abrupt stop when he was shot by a man he wasn’t able to identify. Author Mejia has created a tangled web seen through the eyes of Eve, Jonah, and Max that extends far beyond two missing people. The story ricochets between the laws of physics and psychic dreams as Eve and Jonah work together, with Max circling around them. Love, lies, deceit, and violence unfold as Eve ruthlessly looks for her husband over the course of a few days.

An intense, adrenaline-fueled thriller.