Another wonderful debut paranormal YA from Judith Graves, Under My Skin. From Leap Books, March 27, 2010. Here's the summary....
All her parents wanted was for Eryn to live a normal life...
Redgrave had its share of monsters before Eryn moved to town. Mauled pets, missing children. The Delacroix family is taking the blame, but Eryn knows the truth. Something stalks the night.
Wade, the police chief's son and Redgrave High's resident hottie, warns her the Delacroix are dangerous. But then so is Eryn--in fact, she's lethal.
But she can't help falling for one of the Delacroix boys, dark, brooding--human Alec. And then her world falls apart.
A normal life? Now that's the real fairytale.
What inspired you to write this book?
Years ago I bought a weathered book from a used bookstore - the dust cover was missing, the pages were yellowed and yet I just had to have it. The book still has a prominent spot on the shelf behind my desk. Windigo: An anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction, edited by John Robert Colombo, introduced me to the Windigo myth. I knew I had to write about this fierce creature of the frozen North. While the Windigo doesn't have a dominant role in Under My Skin, reading about the folklore - and getting creeped out by it - was the push that set the book in motion.
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