The Knife and the Butterfly

About this book

After a marijuana-addled brawl with a rival gang 16-year-old Azael wakes up to find himself surrounded by a familiar set of concrete walls and a locked door. Juvie again he thinks. But he cant really remember what happened or how he got picked up. He knows his MS13 boys faced off with some punks from Crazy Crew. There were bats bricks chains. A knife. But he cant remember anything between that moment and when he woke behind bars. Azael knows prison and something isnt right about this lockup. No phone call. No lawyer. No news about his brother or his homies. The only thing they make him do is watch some white girl in some cell. Watch her and try to remember. Lexi Allen would love to forget the brawl would love for it to disappear back into the Xanax fog it came from. And her mother and her lawyer hope she chooses not to remember too much about the brawlat least when its time to testify. Lexi knows theres more at stake in her trial than her life alone though. Shes connected to him and he needs the truth. The knife cut but somehow it also connected.