Illustrations and simple text explain what wind is, how it is used by plants, birds, and people, and how wind can become a storm.

Fourteen-year-old Kezi and Olus, Akkan god of the winds, fall in love and together try to change her fate--to be sacrificed to a Hyte god because of a rash promise her father made--through a series of quests that might make her immortal.

To save heavily pollulted Earth and his ailing mother, eleven-year-old Hurricane must travel to magical worlds, aboard a giant, winged tiger, to rescue the wind and other elements.