Missy's Twitch

<p><br></p><p>Heiress to an energy fortune built off fossil fuels recent college graduate Missy Mayburn Crowe is stricken with overwhelming anxiety over what she fears is a looming climate apocalypse and her family's role in it. She develops an involuntary twitch a conversion disorder that quickly spreads to her impressionable young friends who have been bombarded their entire lives with questionable predictions of climate doom.</p><p> </p><p>Missy is diagnosed by a famed TV shrink as suffering from acute climatosis. Exposure on television and in social media quickly propels her affliction into a worldwide social contagion and Missy into a celebrity ripe for exploitation by politicians media and business opportunists eager to leverage her torment for their own objectives. A cure may require a deeper understanding of whether her worries are justified or not.</p><p> </p><p>Told with humor insight and brisk pacing <em>Missy's Twitch</em> offers an entertaining twist on conventional wisdom about one of the most controversial issues of our time. </p><p> </p><p>JON PEPPER is a novelist entrepreneur and business consultant based in New York City. <em>Missy's Twitch</em> is the fourth novel in his series <em>Fossil Feuds</em>. </p>