Tough Girls Don't Cry

By K.C. Martel

"I wish I was tough like you." Kyrie knows she isn't tough. For years she's kept her head down, pain buried, trying not to break, like everything else in Osprey. As captain of the all-boys baseball team, she's found her place. Until her coach's routine butt slap after a big hit has the whole town turning her story into theirs. Nobody will listen when she says it wasn't assault. Nobody cares that she's telling the truth. As the controversy spirals, old wounds crack open, dragging her back to what really happened when she was thirteen: the shame she's carried alone, the self-blame that's been choking her ever since.

When a group of girls with their own scars begins confiding in her, Kyrie becomes the voice they need. But she can't give them what she doesn't have: the courage to face her own buried trauma. As the weight of silence threatens to destroy her, Kyrie must choose: let others write her ending, or fight to reclaim her story and discover what it truly means when Tough Girls Don't Cry.

For fans of Girl in Pieces, Speak, and The Way I Used to Be. A raw, unflinching story about guilt, survival, and overcoming trauma.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMWJFBPV
• ISBN13: 9798247742395
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"