Heavy Is the Hurricane is Bethany Patrick's sophomore venture in novel writing. She is a microbiologist and herder of needy children and farm animals by day, an overthinker by night. She lives in Small Town, Indiana in a barn built by her family's own hands. Writing is nearly exclusively done on random vacation days from her routine pays-the-bills job and is always an exercise in battling distractions. When given a moment to just be, Bethany can always be found outside, absorbed in all things nature.