Note: This story was initially announced as Whirlwind by Elizabeth Forrest to be published in May 1999. Whirlwind was a working title and it was released as Death Storm by Anne Knight in October 1999. Elizabeth Forrest and Anne Knight are both pseudonyms for Rhondi Vilott Salsitz.

Synopsis: From the back cover of the DAW first edition: The stalking man has been searching for Irina her entire life. Only a black marketeer and his lover stand between the Russian girl and her shadowy executioner. As long as Irina's power does not fail them, she will be kept safe. Yet though her talent is growing, time is running out. And then the unthinkable happens. Irina makes contact with the American, the boy who also has the power... Victoria is being hunted... hunted for the attempted murder of her husband... hunted by those determined to seize Drew, the son whom she cherishes. For Drew has an ability of which he is only beginning to become aware of as he enters his teenage years, a Power he barely understands and is only starting to master, a talent which far too many people wish to make use of for good or ill. As Victoria and Drew flee their pursuers, they find and even more dangerous enemy reaching out to claim them - the Russians who already possess Irina. And if the two youths' powers are ever truly linked, the entire world will be at risk...