Skinless

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Street poetry. Beauty. Danger. Survival.

Lower East Side, NYC, 1999. Fresh from teenage homelessness, Charmay-a street-smooth, trauma-bruised, velvet-voiced singer-seeks the self she lost-and the artist she might become-while wrestling Cindy, her seductive nightclub persona built for survival.

Over two turbulent years, the story slips between past and present. In the city's underground, three forces converge: producer Eddie Cruise hears fire in her voice and pushes her raw; Sam Black, the Miami-raised son of Cuban exiles, earns her fragile trust even as his vendetta against a privileged partner draws danger; Rex Raven, a Wall Street financier who wants Cindy-not Charmay-opens doors-and traps. Family ties-and a father's silence-tug her toward Cindy. Hustles collide. Masks switch places. Cindy makes a play. Chaos ricochets. Beats. Bullets. Bedsheets. By the final chorus, Charmay must choose: wear the mask that kept her alive-or claim the voice that could set her free.

Skinless is a literary psychological thriller told entirely in Charmay's raw first-person voice. Honest, tense, and compassionate, it's a psychological portrait of a woman fighting to overcome trauma's scars-and learning that healing begins where the noise ends: within.

For readers of The Bell Jar, Just Kids, and literary noir.