Within the Skin Book 3
The Skin Quartet
Toro and Fur Tree’s Story
Based loosely on the fairytale of Cinderella, this is the story so many of you have been waiting for.
A street artist risks everything, including the man she loves, to rescue her brother from the old enemy who has kidnapped him.
Alba Vargas, known on the street as El Toro, is on the cusp of fame and fortune. Winner of a prestigious award for young artists, she is the toast of the New York City art scene. Or at least she will be, once she figures out how to act like a woman after living disguised as a boy for six years. If she is lucky, she might even attract the attention of the tattoo artist she has long loved from afar.
Tattoo artist Fernando Pharaoh has betrayed everyone who has ever cared about him, including El Toro, the street-wise graffiti artist who saved his life when all looked bleak. Depressed, he turns away from his friends and finds himself ensnared in a criminal enterprise run by a former enemy.
Then Toro’s younger brother, Hanger, is kidnapped by the crime boss. Blaming himself, Pharaoh sets out to rescue him, resolved to do one good thing in his life. But Toro has her own desperate plan to save her brother—one that will not only break Pharaoh’s heart, but will also destroy every hope and dream she has ever had.