Killing the Butterfly

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Patty thought escaping her parents would save her. She was wrong.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>At fourteen Patty is already carrying years of trauma-an abusive mother an alcoholic father and nightmares too vivid to ignore. When she moves in with her aunt starts over at a new school and falls for the dangerously magnetic Roy she wants to believe she's finally found someone who understands her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Instead she's caught in another web.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Roy is charming possessive explosive and impossible to predict. What begins as first love turns into manipulation violence and control pulling Patty deeper into a relationship that mirrors the very darkness she thought she had escaped. As the abuse escalates Patty is forced to confront the buried terror of her past and ask herself the question she has never been able to answer:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Can she survive the men who claim to love her?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Dark disturbing and sharply observed </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Killing the Butterfly</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a psychological thriller about trauma grooming control and the brutal fight to reclaim power before it's too late.</span></p>