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Broken Rhythm
Paperback
Series: Ignite Miami
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 30 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Kasia Bielec leaves Gdynia for Miami because she loves her husband. She arrives with years of boxing, kickboxing, Dutch training, and Muay Thai behind her-but none of it fits together cleanly, and almost nothing about America does either. Work, English, driving, paperwork, and even the simplest routines force her to become a beginner again.
At IGNITE Miami Athletic Club, Nate Rourke and Vic Sokolov see the problem immediately: Kasia fights like three different athletes living in one body. She has fast hands, hard kicks, and years of experience, but every change in pressure changes the fighter answering it. If she wants to compete in Miami, she has to stop collecting techniques and build one game that can survive when the fight turns against her.
As Kasia earns wins on the local amateur circuit, the rest of her life begins changing too. She becomes stronger at work, more confident in English, more independent behind the wheel, and less willing to let Danny solve every problem for her. The freedom she fought to build should make their marriage stronger. Instead, the more Kasia becomes herself in Miami, the harder it becomes for either of them to understand where their marriage still fits.
Then patient counterfighter Rachel Kincaid hands Kasia a loss she understands too late. There is no bad decision to blame, no injury to hide behind, and no excuse waiting on the scorecards. Rachel simply makes better choices when the pressure rises. At home, Kasia faces an even harder truth: loving Danny may be real, but love alone may not be enough to keep the life they built together from breaking apart.
With a five-round title fight against Aaliyah Brooks ahead, Kasia has one more problem to solve. She cannot win by becoming faster, tougher, or more aggressive. She has to stop fighting the last mistake and make the next good decision-in the ring, at work, and in the life that is finally becoming hers. But when the bell rings, Kasia will have to discover whether everything she has rebuilt can survive one more round of pressure. Broken Rhythm is a gritty, character-driven combat-sports novel about discipline, immigration, marriage, identity, and the fight to build a life on your own terms.
Enter the gym where pressure exposes everything. IGNITE Miami is a character-driven combat-sports series about fighters, coaches, relationships, hard choices, and the code that holds when the room gets difficult.
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