Parents' Guide to The Project

THE PROJECT begins in the aftermath of an automobile accident that has killed the parents of Lo and Bea Denham and left 13-year-old Lo scarred and critically injured. When she recovers, she finds that her older sister has abandoned her to the care of a great aunt and joined a cult called The Unity Project. Six years later, Lo is working as the assistant to a magazine publisher and dreaming of becoming a writer -- a writer who can expose what she's come to believe are the dark secrets hidden by The Unity Project. When a man arrives at the magazine claiming that the group has murdered his son, Lo sees her chance. She visits the group in upstate New York and finds its members speaking glowingly of the good works that The Unity Project does for the local community, and of the ways that the group has given them a second chance at a meaningful life. What she doesn't find is her sister, Bea. She's told that Bea has left the group, and no one knows where she's gone. What she doesn't expect is that Lev Warren, the group's leader, will make her an offer that the ambitious young writer finds impossible to turn down: writing a profile of him for her magazine. But as Lo learns more about Warren and The Unity Project, she starts to question what she's always believed about the group. As she's drawn deeper and deeper into the group and into a relationship with Warren, will she finally find the truth she's been seeking?