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Fifteen-year-old Cassie's World is turned upside-down with the death of her father. Unable to cope, Cassie's mom finds solace in pills. Her brother, Jeremy, becomes lost in Virtual Reality, and her sister, Courtney, spends all her time with her friends, leaving Cassie seemingly unattended and unloved.

At the same time, Cassie's class begins an in-depth unit on butterflies, Cassie's mom unexpectedly takes a trip, leaving her family in the hands of their widowed neighbor. Cassie can either continue to see the worst in her unfortunate surroundings or embrace her new-found knowledge that butterflies aren't the only creatures capable of metamorphosis.

Content: 13+, parental substance abuse, rehabilitation, death of a parent

A life-long lover of reading and writing, Sandy has been penning poems for as long as she can remember. The first book in her author/illustrated early chapter book series, Meatball Man Head Detective: Case of the Missing Pepper Shaker, was released in June of 2024 with Monarch Press' Caterpillar Imprint.Sandy is a Speech-Language Pathologist and lives with her husband, two children, and cat in Western, NY.