Ink Exchange

Faery politics are shifting out of sight of the human world. The balance among the Faery Courts, steady for centuries, has tilted, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, struggles to keep his restless and suddenly weakened fey together. If he loses his grip, violence and cruelty will spread through his court.

Leslie is seventeen and knows nothing about faeries or their schemes. She sees a tattoo of eyes and wings that strikes her as eerily beautiful, and she is certain she must have it. To her it stands for the changes she badly wants in her own life.

The tattoo does alter her life, though not as she imagined. The changes are sinister and magnetic, and they are real rather than symbolic. They tie Leslie to Irial and pull her further into the faery world, where she cannot resist its temptations and has little defence against its dangers.

This is dark urban fantasy aimed at older teens. It follows a human girl caught up in a conflict between fey courts, and the mood is ominous and seductive, with menace building as her link to Irial tightens.