Poison Ink

Sammi, TQ, Caryn, Letty, and Katsuko are floaters. None of them fits in with any particular group at Covington High School -- except each other. One night, to cement their bond, the girls decide to get matching, unique tattoos. But when Sammi backs out at the last minute, everything changes. Faster than you can say "airbrush," Sammi is an outcast, and soon, her friends are behaving like total strangers. When they attack Sammi for trying to break up a brawl, Sammi spies something horrible on her friends' backs: the original tattoo has grown tendrils, snaking and curling over the girls' entire bodies. What has that creepy tattoo artist done to her friends? And what - if anything - can Sammi do to get them back? This deliciously creepy psychological thriller is the perfect summer read.

Reviews

"Action-packed horror with a sidebar of romance, sure to entice those with a taste for blood and the supernatural. Delightfully stomach-churning, [with] a satisfying, violent and sad ending."

-- Kirkus

"Christopher Golden has achieved a remarkable feat in Poison Ink, combining adolescent fears of growing up and growing apart (and possibly turning into someone your friends would never recognize) and the fear of losing control over one's worst and most horrific impulses. Sammi is a terrific point of view character. Much like The Twilight Zone, wherein many classic episodes traded on the implicit horror of losing what one loves, Golden has wrought a tale of adolescence gone astray and friendship put to its ultimate test."

-- Drew Bittner, sfrevu.com

Additional Details
Trade Paperback
288 pages
Delacorte Books
July 8th, 2008
ISBN-10: 0385734832
ISBN-13: 978-0385734837
http://www.christophergolden.com/poisonink/