Julie Fitzell is on yet another awful date matched to her from the dating service. But this one is worse than the rest. Rude, snobby, and under employed, Doug Dupinski turns out to be nothing like the guy Julie hoped his online profile suggested he would be. She would never want him to find out that she was a romance-fiction lover--he would surely make fun of the genre and of her for loving it. But when a storm forces both of them to take shelter in Julie's basement reading room where all her precious romance novels are stored, Doug discovers her secret. But the joke is on him, because a cosmic bold of lightening transport Doug in to one of Julie's novels--and as the romantic hero!. Now Doug and Julie must work together to figure out how to extract Doug from "Magic in the Storm" and bring the novel he has interrupted to a satisfying conclusion.