Twelve years ago, a hurricane took everything from them. Now another one is forcing them under the same roof.

Valentina Ríos came back to Coral Point as the scientist running the town’s new early warning center. What she didn’t expect was that the only available housing would be the cabin belonging to the man who broke her heart twelve years ago: Mateo Serrano, now a marine rescue captain, and the last person on earth she planned on living with again.

She believes he abandoned her in the rain the night the hurricane tore them apart. He believes she left without giving him the chance to explain. Twelve years of silence, built on the same night, remembered two completely different ways.

But hurricane season doesn’t wait for anyone, and being forced to share a roof at the cabin on the pier pulls them back into each other’s orbit — coordinating, clashing, remembering exactly why they fell in love in the first place. As a new storm builds on the horizon, Valentina and Mateo will have to decide whether the pride that kept them apart is worth more than the truth neither of them ever had the courage to chase.

Because some storms don’t come from the sky. Some have been building inside the heart for twelve years.

The Rules of the Storm is a contemporary romance novel about second chances, misunderstandings that refuse to die, and a love that survives even when the whole world seems set on tearing it apart.