Skinless
Second Edition, Expanded & Revised
by Maggie Moor
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Pub Date Oct 22 2025 | Archive Date Dec 02 2025
ARC provided by Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op | Pearl of Peace Publishing
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Description
NYC underground, 1999: Beauty cuts. Survival sings. The truth won’t stay buried.
Skinless is a literary psychological thriller told entirely in Charmay’s raw first‑person voice.
Lower East Side, New York City, 1999. Fresh from teenage homelessness, Charmay—a street‑smart, trauma‑bruised, velvet‑voiced singer—wants more than survival. By night she becomes Cindy, the seductive armor that protects her—and threatens to take over. By day she pours truth into song, turning pain to power.
Across two turbulent years—slipping from past to 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 trust, but his vendetta against a privileged partner draws danger; Rex Raven—a Wall Street financier who wants Cindy, not Charmay—opens glittering doors—and traps. Family ties pick old wounds. Hustles collide. Masks switch places. Chaos ricochets. Beats. Bullets. Bedsheets.
By the final chorus, Charmay must decide: cling to the mask that kept her alive—or claim the voice that could set her free. Honest, tense, and compassionate, Skinless is a psychological portrait of a woman fighting to overcome trauma’s scars—and learning that healing begins within. For readers of The Bell Jar, Just Kids, and literary noir.
Praise:
“An eloquent crime novel… sentences vacillate between beauty and despair… Charmay’s raw will to live.” — Foreword Reviews, B. Welton
About the Second Edition: After reclaiming rights to Skinless, Maggie Moor brought the book closer to her original vision. She deepened the New York music‑world and vocal‑coach relationships, added live‑stage sequences, widened family arcs, and clarified timeline and continuity. The voice and plot are unchanged; what’s new is breadth, restoration, and resonance—the definitive Skinless.
A Note From the Publisher
Content notes: trauma, violence, sexual situations, drug use. If posting on social,
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Advance Praise
“Skinless is an eloquent crime novel… sentences vacillate between beauty and despair… Charmay’s street poetry highlights the city’s colors and sensations in lush, sensual language… and her raw will to live.” — Foreword Reviews (Benjamin Welton)
“It is possible that the only consistent feature across humanity is that we are all, every one of us, a bundle of inconsistencies… Charmay is willing to be whatever she has to be to survive… as she works to overcome her past and wring hope from the drug‑drenched, sex‑soaked streets of 1990s New York City.” — Clarion Reviews (D. Ballantyne)
“A sharp deviation from what you would expect in a typical crime novel.” — Goodreads (Advance Reader)
“A unique writing style takes you directly inside the narrator’s mind and heart… twisting and turning right up to the final, suspenseful ending… images and life lessons stay with you long after.” — Barbara Hodge, Foreword
“Noir‑ish feel… had me hooked right away.” — Antwon Floyd Sr., Author
“Raw, real, and relentlessly compelling.” — Goodreads
“Lyrical, gritty, unforgettable.” — Goodreads (Advance Reader)
“Voice‑driven and fearless.” — Goodreads
“Ms. Moor has taken this technique to a much more intense place than I have ever experienced… Charmay is showing us all of the voices inside her head… raw and instant and complicated.” — McLoughlin PR Indie Books
“A thrilling and realistic story about living on the edge in New York City in the 1990s.” — McLoughlin PR Indie Books
“Maggie Moor’s style of prose has a lyrical and poetic flow… a stream of consciousness… with the New York City grit of Jim Carroll.” — Goodreads
“Written in the first person… grabs you inside the protagonist’s mind… different and original… a story of survival.” — Vincent Wallis, Author
“These are real words, real scenes… sometimes in staccato… other times in the fluid fidelity of a slow rock opera.” — Goodreads
“A first‑time novel… raw and real.” — Goodreads
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• Launches: eBook October 22, 2025; Print November 12, 2025.
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9798993121246 |
| PRICE | $6.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 388 |
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