First in a stunning new urban fantasy series from an author who “NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE.” (BOOKLIST, STARRED REVIEW)
Demon hunter Maxine Kiss wears her armor as tattoos, which unwind from her body to take on forms of their own at night. They stand between her and her enemies, just as Maxine stands between humanity and the demons breaking out from behind the prison veils. It is a life lacking in love, reveling in death,...

What could cause Bob to give up his job at a pathology lab that demands so little of him, where he can play Tetris and surf the Web whenever he wants? What could lead him to walk out on a beautiful girlfriend who makes her living as a masturbation coach? What could make him risk everything to transform himself into Roberto, a kingpin in the Los Angeles Mexican mafia? An erotic tattoo-the Mona Lisa of erotic tattoos-painted on a severed arm, which...

When Imogen Lange, the girl with whom she shares a tattoo and a decade-old secret, is murdered, tattoo artist Kenzie Sloan must stay one step ahead of those who are waiting for the perfect moment to fulfill a dark promise that had been inked in her skin years ago.

A Japanese mystery set in 1947 Tokyo featuring Kenzo Matsushita, a young doctor who has an affair with a married woman with a tattooed torso. One day he finds her murdered, the torso missing, and sets out to find the killer. A look at the art of tattooing in Japan where it is banned.

"Heavily-tattooed and erratic, Tess hides in plain sight, off-the-grid in New Orleans. Tess is a survivor with more secrets than even she knows. Her clearest memories are tattooed on her skin, memorials to the missing dead. No one knows who Tess is--or that she's still alive. That is, until writer J. Michael Anderson appears in town looking for someone with an irresistible story he can use to revive his flagging career. In Durham, North Carolina...

"Stuck in neutral, Graham Patterson finds his decision to get tattooed by a brilliant tattoo artist in North Carolina setting off a series of extraordinary events that changes his life forever in ways he never could have imagined, including the opportunity to choose from three different lives"--

When tattoo artist Mike meets body piercer Deb, the last thing he expected was romance. That's what he finds though, as the two follow their off kilter careers and love life into disaster. A growing trend in the tattoo shop, customers getting tattooed with the ashes of deceased loved ones, could offer a solution. This isn't art, its war, and Mike and Deb will stop at nothing in their quest for revenge, even if it means stepping outside the known boundaries...

A selection of classic and contemporary short stories, essays, and poems about tattoos explores the diverse roles of this popular form of personal expression.