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 This is the PWP that started it all!
Meet Monica Truman, a young woman desperately seeking a change in her life. She feels trapped in her skin by her career, her family and the world around her. She encounters the tall dark stranger, Torrid Duncan, owner of a tattoo parlor, by chance, and discovers that passion isn't only skin deep!

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Chapter Two

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It's been six months since Torrid and Monica last saw each other, and  they have both changed a lot. Monica has grown into her own woman and has made some serious decisions about where she is going. Torrid is fighting her past and the ghosts that haunt her, trying to break free of the isolation she has put herself in.  When an old foe suddenly turns up to wreak havoc on Torrid's life, Torrid realizes that some things can't be taken for granted. And that a soul is made of more than ink and steel.

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CHAPTER FIVE  

CHAPTER SIX

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As Torrid prepares to go to a tattoo convention in Amsterdam, her life is suddenly turned upside down. A betrayal and loss of friendship and possibly the love of her life hangs in the balance. Will she endure the greatest pain and sorrow? Will she be reunited with her one true love and soul mate? Is there rest for the wicked? First she must pass through the eye of the needle.

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     Dr. Drelica Truman goes west to the Rio Grande valley in the Big Bend to search for the fossil remains of a giant prehistoric Croc, along the way she is met with one disaster after another from gem smugglers who threaten to destroy millions of years of knowledge preserved in the fossil sites, and local officials and religious fanatics who want to stop the excavations and preserve the teachings of creationism.

     Meanwhile, Torrid comes home from Amsterdam to pick of the pieces and get on with her life. The trip away did her good, but she realizes she is severely burned out on her work and her life in general. Something is missing. She needs a break to heal, to reclaim, to find herself again. She decides to take a vacation, but where?  See what happens when Fossil Fuel ignites!

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CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

 CHAPTER  FIVE

CHAPTER SIX 

      CHAPTER SEVEN

  CHAPTER EIGHT 

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN (CONCLUSION)

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      Drelica Truman is exhausted; the workload of her new appointment as head curator has taxed her to her limits. Overseeing her dig-site, and organizing the museum into an educational/teaching institute as well as a booming tourist attraction was no small feat.  Torrid is burned out on her work; she doesn't enjoy pushing ink like she used to, when it was new and primal. She lost touch with the passion behind applying tattoos, and wants to quicken her dying creative spirit. She plans a trip to Hawaii to study Polynesian tattoos and application techniques, and asks Drelica to accompany her. Drelica ponders whether or not to go: With the tragic news of her sister's death, Drelica is ready for a break. Hawaii, Torrid, tropical paradise and active volcanoes...oh yeah!  Get ready for some summer fun and adventure in this latest story in the SKIN DEEP saga!  
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CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN  CHAPTER EIGHT

  CHAPTER NINE 

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The sixth story in the SKIN DEEP Saga finds Torrid and Drelica preparing for their Big Day. Drelica is dreaming of the perfect wedding, while Torrid merely wants to survive the occasion with her brain intact, as she is suddenly reunited with her estranged conservative Christian mother, Virgillia Duncan-Cartwright.
Meanwhile, Detective Ariel Ryder investigates a string of serial homicides in Houston's Gay Mecca, a neighborhood called "The Montrose". She receives letters from the killer taunting the police and threatening an apocalypse against gay and lesbians during the week of the citywide Pride celebration.  The paths of the happy couple, and the desperate police detective intersect in a strange and unpredictable triangle. 

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