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It's finally here ! The new St. Skin novel. This time we get Saint's, or Sawyer's, story - the guy who's half owner of the tattoo shop that is named for him. This is one you definitely want to pick up, and you can learn a little more in my review. Five gritty, emotional stars! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sometimes love and hate are so entwined it’s impossible to know where one ends and the other begins. Selfishness wars with devotion and the need to destroy battles the desire to heal. Sometimes time and distance provide clarity and certainty, but almost always, life has other ideas. When Sawyer left Hundred Falls Valley, St. Skin, the business he had built, and Kate, the only girl he ever loved, he left a trail of wreckage. Lifelong friendships – his family really – abruptly severed, the tattoo shop created from his heart and soul abandoned, and Kate's heart littered in jagged shards. All with no explanation. There one minute and gone the next, never returning as days turned into ...

If you've never read something by London Casey or Jaxson Kidman you're really missing out. Kidman, especially, isn't satisfied until he cuts deep enough to hit a vein and bleeds out emotion into the pages of the story, leaving bits of his soul behind, and this one is so full of emotion it will swallow you up! My review:  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ K idman and Casey really delivered on this one! It’s not the angsty, “I can’t make up my mind" or love/hate book typical of young adult fiction, but a tenuous, tragic, harrowing look at devastated lives where hope, redemption and love win in the end. There’s so much authentic emotion that Evan and Dena’s story draws you in, ties your heart in knots and clings to your psyche long after the last page. Anna and Adena were both effected differently by their parents' deaths. Dena, being the older sister, was the responsible one who constantly tried to put the pieces back together as Anna went off the rails, always leaving a wake of destruc...