Shattered Lives

What do you do when your world crumbles?

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In Shattered Lives, the Missing Butterflies Series starter, you’ll meet the teenagers living hundreds of miles apart BEFORE their lives become inexorably tangled in a fight to survive hitmen working for a criminal syndicate known as the Aurelian Society.

In Utah, 18-year-old Ashten Mason, a university student, detective’s daughter, and occasional amateur sleuth, pursues her unquenchable thirst for perfection. However, her plan to graduate with honors fractures when she’s falsely accused of committing a felony. Faced with expulsion from the university, she uses skills her father taught her to search for clues to exonerate herself. A twist of events leads Miss Perfect to make decisions that could get her arrested or kidnapped by the Aurelians.

In Los Angeles, Tommy Zamora, an 18-year-old recently-orphaned dyslexic mechanic finds himself provider and protector of his younger sisters in a drug- and gang-infested Los Angeles barrio. His older sister, supposedly safe at San Diego State University, calls him begging for help after a date goes horribly wrong. Tommy races to save her. His decisions ensnare him and his family in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with the criminal syndicate he doesn’t know exists.

Meanwhile in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Shiloh Nash is owned heart and soul by the Aurelian Society. The undercurrent of evil traps innocent victims in riptides of danger and intrigue. Shiloh’s fellow minion and foster mother, Delilah Decuir, struggles to remember who she is and how to control fits of violence that leave a trail of bodies in her wake.