The Butterfly Masquerade by Lizzy Rose

A compelling, humorous and realistic view of love, loss and second chances

What if you could do something that had the potential to change another person’s life forever? What if that something made you look and feel crazy? Would you still do it?

Sophie Hunter is awkward, impulsive and over-analyses absolutely everything. Living in New York and nursing the broken heart her Husband Nathan left her with, she’s feeling disenchanted with the city she once loved and has given up on finding love ever again.

Sam Reilly was a stockbroker in the City who had it all; looks, money, an amazing apartment and an expensive lifestyle. Until he found himself penniless and alone, living on the streets and relying on the kindness of strangers to survive.

When Sophie witnesses Sam sacrificing his own needs to help a fellow homeless man, she approaches him and they quickly form a very close and at times explosive friendship, as they turn each other’s lives upside down in every way imaginable.

With a motley crew of characters, from her slightly ridiculous and soft hearted best friend Paul, to her ditzy but well-meaning Mother, Sophie soon discovers that the smallest of actions can lead to the biggest of consequences, that sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain a lot more, and more often than not, people are definitely not what they seem.