Blood on the Skin

A blood-stained knife. A teammate behind bars. And a secret world on the brink of exposure.

Thadian Catch has been arrested for murder. Caught red-handed and covered in blood, Catch looks exactly like the monster the police claim he is-and they think he's behind four other gruesome killings.

After a bitter falling out, Bunyip "Yip" Jones and Catch aren't even on speaking terms. Most of the International Paranormal Response team is ready to write him off, and the supernatural ruling body has ordered them to stand down. But Yip's trauma-honed instincts see patterns others miss. She knows the evidence is too neat. Catch might be a Faoladh werewolf, but he isn't a cold-blooded killer.

Defying direct orders, Yip goes completely rogue to clear his name. But the stakes are agonisingly high: to keep the hidden "Slipworld" a secret, Catch must starve himself in his cell so his body doesn't heal with supernatural speed in front of the human guards. If the secret gets out, it means war.

Armed with nothing but her prosthetic hand, a sharp eye for detail, and the help of her sapphic vampire friend Pia, Yip launches an off-the-books investigation. To save Catch without exposing their world, they must find a way to frame the supernatural truth in purely human terms. Their only hope is Miss Clementine-a brilliant, fiercely sassy Black trans-fem lawyer who knows exactly how to fight a stacked system.

If Yip fails, Catch faces life in prison, the secret world exposes itself, and a calculated killer will unleash something far worse. Yip has a lifetime of trauma pushing her to the brink, but she's never backed down from a fight-and she's not about to start now.