The woman stared into the mass of jumbled lumber. Allie could hear a baby wailing from somewhere inside the mess. Allie's life has just taken a turn for the worse. Not only do her parents fight all the time, but now she thinks she might be pregnant. She hooks up with her old friend Razz, a professional skateboarder, and goes on the road. Razz is ranked number one but his rivalry with Slammer is heating up, and Razz and Allie head for home-right into the path of a fierce tornado. To survive in the horror and destruction that follow the storm, Allie has to call on an inner strength she didn't know she had.

William Bell was a teacher and the bestselling author of a number of teen novels.