
However the design she finally chooses is no ordinary design. Unable to talk about it with her best friend, Aislinn (who now seems to split her life between Keenan and Seth), Leslie decides to take back her body by getting a tattoo.

But several months ago everything went wrong when her brother drugged her and gave her to his friends to settle a drug debt. Leslie’s tried to keep the family together – working shifts as a waitress at the local diner to pay the bills while also studying hard at school because she knows her escape can only come with a scholarship to a good college. Her father took refuge in alcohol and her brother slid into drug abuse. Leslie’s life took a turn for the worse when her mother left.

Leslie looked up.īut the image is more than just tempting art, and it draws Leslie into a world of shadows and desire – into the world of Faerie.

Images cluttered the page, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge: inky-black eyes surrounded by wings like shadows coalescing.
