Butterfly Bluff: Forced Emergence

By SharLee Manson

What happens when the life you trusted turns out to be a bluff?
In Butterfly Bluff: Forced Emergence, SharLee Manson delivers a raw, unguarded memoir of love, deception, trauma, and the long road back to herself-told through the language of poker, where every hand carries risk and every choice has consequences.
When her marriage collapses under the weight of secrets, SharLee is forced to confront not only the man she thought she knew, but the patterns that kept her betting on the wrong players. As the losses mount-through betrayal, medical trauma, divorce, and the sudden deaths of siblings-she learns that survival isn't about holding on. It's about knowing when to fold.
At poker tables filled with strangers who become lifelines, SharLee discovers the power of intuition, the courage to trust her read, and the strength to reclaim her voice. Each chapter turns another card, revealing truths she once feared and a resilience she never knew she possessed.
Butterfly Bluff is a story of forced emergence-of pushing through grief, shedding shame, and learning that transformation doesn't come from being rescued, but from choosing yourself when it matters most.
For anyone who has loved deeply, lost painfully, or wondered if it's too late to begin again, this memoir is a reminder:
Some hands are meant to be folded. And some lives are meant to be reclaimed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GRPDKC3J
• ISBN13: 9798250868037
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.7" x 6.2"