Skin Games
by Adam Pepper
$3.99 (Kindle Edition)
Innovation Haven
January 3, 2012

SKIN GAMES: A brutal crime drama by Adam Pepper is now available! Exclusively for Kindle for 90 days! When a mafia princess falls for a two-bit hoodlum an unhappy don plays some rough games in order to separate the two lovers. Sean O’Donnell is a man who always keeps his word, especially to a lady. His good-for-nothing old man left his mother flat. When she gets ill, Sean assures her that he will never be like his father; if he makes a promise he will keep it, no matter what the cost. When local mob boss Mario Torretta’s daughter Nicole falls for Sean, the Don is not pleased, and makes it known that Sean is not good enough for his princess. However, Nicole is in love and begs Sean to stick by her. Once Sean gives his word, no amount of pressure from the Don will weaken his resolve. Sean will endure and persevere to keep his promise to Nicole, and to his mother.

Adam Pepper writes with zeal, verve, and a steak knife to the throat.
-Scott Nicholson, author of Liquid Fear

Skin Games has been getting some pretty strong endorsements, and with good reason. Nick Cato mentions in his review that mob fans shouldn’t miss this one, and I’m inclined to agree I’ve started to read the first few chapters and am already hooked; it’s got a lot of interesting elements so far, including a strong protagonist, great humour, and the story is, of course, the big one. Many urban fantasy novelists have attempted to fuse the mob story with supernatural elements but nothing has really struck me as too memorable–Skin Games changes all of that and gets everything right. There’s no shortage of memorable characters so far, and Sean, the protagonist, is a hoot

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