Break the Skin
A Novel
Laney—a skinny, awkward teenager alone in the world—thinks she’s found a kindred spirit in thirty-five-year-old Delilah. Then the police come to ask Laney questions and she finds herself reconstructing a story of suspense, deceit, and revenge; a story that will haunt her forever.
Seven hundred miles away, in Texas, Miss Baby has the hardened heart of a woman who has been used by men in every possible way, yet she is desperate for true love. When she meets a stranger, a man who claims he can’t remember his real name or his past but who seems gentle and trusting, Miss Baby thinks she may have finally found someone to love, someone who will protect her from the abusive men who fill her…
Lee Martin is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Bright Forever, the novel Quakertown, the story collection The Least You Need to Know, and the memoirs From Our House and Turning Bones. He has won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, a Lawrence Foundation Award, the Glenna Luschei Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Martin lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he directs the creative writing program at The Ohio State University.
