“1960s carnival life. Motorcycle clubs. Murder. Starts with a fire and ends with a bang.”
“A rollicking pace, a unique and original plot, compelling characters, and non-stop action make Tattoo an absolute firecracker.”
“For 3 days straight I was enthralled in this book. It’s impossible to put down.”
This book is for you if you’ve ever wanted to escape…
My mother named me Mercy, after the nuns who raised her, but my life has been anything but merciful. The path I’ve traveled has been long and winding, full of heartbreak and violence, but also rare moments of beauty.
My story starts in Savannah, the day I found my mother’s body after she’d chased two bottles of sleeping pills with a bottle of home-made moonshine. It’s the story of my unhinged stepfather, a devastating fire, and how I ended up on the run, wanted for murder.
It tells of my obsessive search for my birth father that I clung to like a life raft as I drifted—from the bright lights of a shady traveling carnival, where I was given my first tattoo by my older lover; to a biker gang falling apart at the seams, where I met the man who would torment me for years to come.
From the cream of high society in California, to the lonely beaches of Mexico where I finally found a type of peace—just not the one I expected.
You judge me because my tattoos make me look strange, dangerous. But there’s more to them than that. To understand the way I look, you need to know where I came from. To understand me, you need to know my story…
“He told me that I was too fat and ugly to do that as a job.”
I know exactly what it feels like to want to do something amazing and creative with your life, only to be told by everyone around “no, that’s stupid”.
Or worse “you’re stupid”.
And you know what? For a really long time that stopped me from doing what I wanted to do with my life. Like write scripts for movies and even a novel.
I just didn’t think I was good enough. Or worthy enough. Or creative enough.
Mostly, I just had no idea what I wanted to do. You know the feeling, right?
You’re not alone. I know exactly what that feels like and I want to show you how a girl who craved adventure and creativity, created that for herself.