Under My Skin

From one of the world’s leading fantasists comes an exhilarating new series that will thrill teen and adult readers alike.

For the past six months, something has been happening to young people in Santa Feliz. Week after week, there’s news of another teen changing shape, transforming from human to wild animal and back again. The federal government has stepped in, running public service announcements calling for affected youth to turn themselves in for “orientation and training.”

Josh Saunders has seen the news reports, but he is still unprepared when it happens to him. One minute he’s arguing with his mother’s boyfriend and the next, he is looming over the man, blood dripping from his claws—he has transformed into a mountain lion. When he switches back to his human body, he knows his life has changed forever. He has become a Wildling.

Trusting only his best friends Des and Marina with his secret, Josh tries to return to regular living. But an encounter with Elzie, another Wildling, brings him unwanted attention from the authorities. And when an accidental betrayal reveals Josh’s secret, his carefully constructed cover is ripped apart, forcing his friends to intervene. They must grudgingly put their trust in others, including other Wildlings—and, most challenging, in each other— if they ever hope to save him.

Under My Skin is an action and emotion filled page-turner. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

            — Melissa Marr

Charles de Lint is the modern master of urban fantasy. Folktale, myth, fairy tale, dreams, urban legend—all of it adds up to pure magic in de Lint's vivid, original world. No one does it better.

— Alice Hoffman

Charles de Lint writes like a magician.  He draws out the strange inside our own world, weaving stories that feel more real than we are when we read them.  He is, simply put, the best.

— Holly Black

To read de Lint is to fall under the spell of a master storyteller, to be reminded of the greatness of life, of the beauty and majesty lurking in shadows and empty doorways.

– Quill and Quire

De Lint is probably the finest contemporary author of fantasy

– Booklist, American Library Association

Unlike most fantasy writers who deal with battles between ultimate good and evil, de Lint concentrates on smaller, very personal conflicts.  Perhaps this is what makes him accessible to the non-fantasy audience as well as the hard-core fans.  Perhaps it’s just damned fine writing.

– Quill & Quire

Easily Canada’s top fantasy scribe…a major international force in the genre.  Here is a biped who has steadfastly avoided stereotyping in his work from the beginning…de Lint has developed a considerable talent for injecting magic into everyday contemporary life.

– The Edmonton Journal

De Lint’s evocative images, both ordinary and fantastic, jolt the imagination.

– Publishers Weekly

It is hard to imagine urban fantasy done with greater skill

– Booklist, American Library Association

De Lint is as engaging a stylist as Stephen King, but considerably more inventive and ambitious

– The Globe and Mail

Charles de Lint's greatest strength...is his obvious love for his characters, and empathy for people generally.  ...he is showing us people living up to their potential, rather than down to it. And that is what makes de Lint's books rewarding.

– Locus Magazine

De Lint is a modern bard who knows how to use the poetry of the written word to entrance his reader.  In all of his work, there is a constant interplay between love and lament… A superb storyteller, de Lint can be a writer of great imaginative flights…

– The Vancouver Sun