Ill Wind is a 330 page modern magics fantasy novel first published in 2002 and written by Rachel Caine. It is Book One of The Weather Warden series. Roc's summary reads as follows:
The Wardens Association has been around pretty much forever. Some Wardens control fire, others control earth, water, or wind-and the most powerful can control more than one element. Without Wardens, Mother Nature would wipe humanity off the face of the earth....
Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden. Usually, all it takes is a wave of her hand to tame the most violent weather. But now Joanne is trying to outrun another kind of storm: accusations of corruption and murder. So she's resorting to the very human tactic of running for her life....
Her only hope is Lewis, the most powerful Warden. Unfortunately, He is also on the run from the World Council. It seems he's stolen not one but three bottles of Djinn-making him the most wanted man on earth. And without Lewis, Joanne's chances of surviving are as good as a snowball in-well, a place she may be sent to.
So she and her classic Mustang are racing hard to find him because there's some bad weather closing in fast....
