The Butterfly's Sting

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 six-year-old Zach, 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 is a talented boxer, 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 gets injured, Jack brings a cut man onto the team. Unexpectdly, Liam is a school friend of Bo's, and even as the two of them grow close, 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 think about taking her pro, and in an explosive finale, the violence moves outside the ring, putting everything Bo loves at risk.
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