Butterfly's Sting

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action-packed
Alameda Island
alcohol and alcoholism
anger management
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boxing
caregiver
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challenges of adolescence
child abuse
Christy Martin
classmates
compelling
coping with hardship
Deal with the Devil
domestic violence
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escape
falling in love
family relationships
fast-paced
Fight Club
first relationship
foster care
gritty
harrowing
hidden life
high school
illegal gambling
independence
individualism
Muhammad Ali
orphans
parentification
protection
Rainbow Rowell
resilience
romance
San Francisco Bay area
secrets
self-parenting
siblings
social work
sports injury
taking care of others
The Coal Miner's Daughter
Untold
welfare
women in sports

Product details

  • ISBN 9781779460011
  • Weight: 311g
  • Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Nov 2025
  • Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Paperback
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For Bo and her siblings, the underground fight club may finally provide escape from life with an abusive uncle ― but only if she can win.

Never again. That’s what seventeen-year-old Bo Clark has promised her two younger siblings ever since they were put in separate foster homes―a situation that nearly turned deadly for her little brother, and that they have vowed never to repeat. Bo will do anything to keep that promise. Even if it means enduring the abuse of Uncle Jack, their new guardian. When Jack discovers that Bo has a talent for boxing, he signs her up for an underground fight club tournament, which could bring in enough money for her to move out with her siblings as soon as she turns eighteen.

But the ring is a brutal place, and when Bo’s cutman is arrested, Jack is forced to bring a new one onto the team. Liam turns out to be a schoolmate of Bo’s, and even as the two of them grow closer, she worries that he will go to the authorities if he ever finds out Jack is hurting her.

As Bo makes her way closer to the big prize, Jack starts to set his sights beyond the tournament, and in an explosive finale, the violence moves outside the ring, putting everything Bo loves at risk.


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ABBIE HARLOW has a BA from Brigham Young University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, where The Butterfly’s Sting was her thesis project. Now when she’s not writing, she works in the main office of a high school, where she observes the triumphs and trials of students every day. Abbie lives in Alameda, California, inspiration for the setting of this story, and where her family has lived for five generations. The Butterfly’s Sting is her first novel.

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