Two people arrive at an antique bookstore to begin an affair. During a torrential storm engulfing the city Cammie and Aiden must confront the tempest outside and the turmoil within to truly know what their hearts want, and if what they truly want is each other.

SYNOPSIS:

Cammie Holden is unhappy. She arrives at Second Circle Books with a strenuous job in human resources that demands an increasing amount of her time and energy. Her marriage to her husband Arthur is slipping away like raindrops through a sewer grate. The couple’s two sons, Bruce (15) and Tyler (11) are crumbling under the onslaught of puberty. But Cammie is a bibliophile; her great passion is books. Worlds of literature she can escape to inhabit and find things she lacks in her waking life, passion, and adventure. On this day, Cammie approaches this emporium with something she’s only ever had in her books: a potential lover.

Aiden Rohm is unhappy. A relationship to the younger Alizee was exciting and passionate but has now fallen into a dangerous malaise of comfort and resentment. His new promotion to the head of human resources at his job should be exciting but provides little relief from the monotony of his life. He only respite from the drudgery is the world of a bibliophile; his books add excitement, passion, and freedom to his mundane existence. But today, he pulls into the parking lot of Second Circle Antique Books with something else on his mind: another woman.

Second Circle Antique Books is an unhappy place. The manager, Herman Ost, longs for an easy existence. Clerk Fanta Mitchell desires an employer who values instead of ogles her. Will Underhill wants to be paid on time. No one, however, is getting what they yearn for.

This bookstore, in this city, is about to experience storms. As these cars pull into the parking lot, heavy clouds gather overhead and will soon unleash a tempest upon them. Within the building, several other storms are about to be unleashed. Cammie must weigh her newfound passion with the embers of a dying love. Aiden must decide between the hope of a new love and the memory of a love gone wrong. Herman, Fanta and Will have to wrestle with the disappointments, failed expectations, and frustrations of each other.

After this deluge is over, nothing will be the same.

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