The Butterfly Project
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When Ally's little sister is diagnosed with a disease that will end her short life in just a few months, Ally realises that it the disease won't just kill the person she loves the most; it will destroy her family too. The disease is becoming so common though, and Ally soon discovers a support group: Charlotte Supports.
For while it eases the pain- until a much larger 'support' group buys it out to eliminate the competition. Ally goes on a journey to re-recruit the people who once helped her so much and start up her own project: Project Butterfly and to help her little sister Maddie along the way. What happens to her in those months changes her life, and the way she see's things, forever.
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