Butterflies at the Window: Stories of "Butterfly People" and Other Miracles

The date is May 22, 2011. Elly McConnell's "very good" graduation day seems almost perfect when three enormous butterflies appear at her bedroom window. They are incredibly beautiful, almost other-worldly in their splendor; but when Elly, then her mother, then other members of the McConnell clan begin to see them in the most unlikely places, their presence begins to feel strangely ominous. And when they appear to be watching the family's every move, it is hard to avoid a growing sense of foreboding. On this perfect spring day of high school graduations, could these exquisite creatures actually be harbingers of looming tragedy? Then a rare and massive EF5 tornado unexpectedly turns that perfect day dark and deadly. As the storm of the century bears down, can the McConnell family survive? And in the midst of unspeakable terror and devastation, could "children of the tornado" actually be seeing "butterfly people?"