Ink Exchange

Description

Mortal affections and faery rivalries continue to collide in the town of Huntsdale, as New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr takes urban fantasy to new heights. After suffering a terrible trauma at the hands of her brother's dealer friends, Leslie becomes obsessed with the idea of getting a tattoo - it's the one thing that will allow her to reclaim her body, renew her self-confidence. And when Rabbit, her local tattoo artist, shows her a secret book of his own designs, she finds one of them irresistible. Soon, her back is adorned with a pair of mysterious eyes, framed by black wings. Leslie feels good - more than good. Nothing bad can touch her. But what she doesn't know is that her new tattoo binds her tightly to the faery whose symbol she chose: Irial, the exquisitely dangerous king of the Dark Court...

Melissa Marr was voted in high school the "most likely to end up in jail". Instead, she went to graduate school, worked in a bar, became a teacher and did a lot of writing. Her novels Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity and Radiant Shadows, Darkest Mercy and Faery Tales and Nightmares are published by HarperCollins Children's Books. She has also recently compiled and edited Enthralled, a collection of paranormal novellas with Kelley Armstrong.

"A delicious, smoky delight." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Another highly addictive read...Compulsive enough to give the Twilight series a run for its money, and dizzyingly more sinister." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "As the sequel to Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange is even more compelling. Their [the characters'] fierce, sometimes despairing search for their true selves gives Ink Exchange its sinister power." -- Washington Post Book World "Compulsive enough to give the Twilight series a run for its money." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Newcomers and returning readers alike will devour this companion novel to Marr's ragingly popular Wicked Lovely . . . . This dark fantasy about survival and transformation is as mesmerizing as its urban faery subjects." -- Booklist "Readers will be drawn in by Marr's darkly poetic imagery and language, her vivid portrayal of the art of tattooing, and her shadowy love triangle. This is indeed a delicious, smoky delight." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "This dark fantasy about survival and transformation is as mesmerizing as its urban faery subjects." -- Booklist