The Butterfly and The Beasts: "Your Energy is Our Destiny"

A homeless teenager, Shy Sogna, finds herself running through streets of New York in the midst of the superstorm to escape the captive abuse of a billionaire and avoid revealing a secret that will change their lives. In the same storm, physician Ryan Laughlin is flying home from Italy after a near fatal romance with researcher Vanessa Venetre when his plane crashes in the New York harbor. Harvard faculty Julia Stone is presenting a lecture to students at Columbia University only to have a terrorist show up to take the class hostage. Synchronicity saves each of them and brings them together in a journey to Italy to join world leaders trying to solve the growing beasts of the world. Confronted by threats, their actions will ultimately determine the destiny of the world. In a thrilling fast-moving story, the unexpected twists engage readers to the end.