The subway doors open and close and in one moment, Sebastian and Maria's lives are changed forever. With one glance they are thrust into a modern-day account of West Side Story. Sebastian, a nascent adolescent growing up under the watchful eye of his reclusive father, finds refuge in endless late-night rides on the NYC subway. Maria, a young mother of two, is recently unemployed and attempting to escape the rage of her forbidding and explosive boyfriend. From the moment their eyes meet across the subway car, these two strangers find a connection that neither can explain and neither can ignore. CHASING WINDMILLS is a poignant love story, told with Catherine Ryan Hyde's stirring and evocative prose, that will leave you yearning for a subway ride that is a fraction as enchanting.