Melissa Marr was voted in high school the “most likely to end up in jail”. Instead she went to graduate school worked in a bar became a teacher and did a lot of writing. Wicked Lovely is her first novel
<p>Mortal affections and faery rivalries continue to collide in the town of Huntsdale as New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr takes urban fantasy to new heights. <span style="font-size: 1rem;">After suffering a terrible trauma at the hands of her brother’s dealer friends Leslie becomes obsessed with the idea of getting a tattoo – it’s the one thing that will allow her to reclaim her body renew her self-confidence. And when Rabbit her local tattoo artist shows her a secret book of his own designs she finds one of them irresistible. </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Soon her back is adorned with a pair of mysterious eyes framed by black wings. Leslie feels good – more than good. Nothing bad can touch her. But what she doesn’t know is that her new tattoo binds her tightly to the faery whose symbol she chose: Irial the exquisitely dangerous king of the Dark Court…</span></p>