Skinless

<p><strong>A deeply moving deliciously weighty work of fiction... Those who surrender to the flow will be rewarded.</strong></p><p><strong>-<em> KIRKUS REVIEWS</em></strong></p><p></p><p>1999 NYC Lower East Side.</p><p>A singer masks her skinless vulnerability behind a glittering alter ego to navigate the margins of street life-</p><p>until the persona begins to destroy her.</p><p>Skinless is a brutally raw thriller exploring art identity and the shadows we carry. Moves with the tension of crime noir and the raw interior intimacy of literary fiction-</p><p>a subversion of the femme fatale into something raw intimate and fiercely human.</p><p></p><p><strong>STREET POETRY. BEAUTY. DANGER. SURVIVAL.</strong></p><p>Charmay a survivor of childhood abuse and teenage homelessness struggles to hold onto herself while trying to make it as a singer. She drinks to numb and sings to soothe the raw trauma she calls skinless slipping into Cindy-the smooth persona she's built on manipulation to attract wealth and finesse the dangerous margins of street life.</p><p>In a world chasing quick fixes and family rejection Charmay is pulled into a web of money ambition and hunger for intimacy-clinging to an increasingly violent marriage with a weed kingpin a Wall Street financier obsessed with Cindy and a music producer who cuts her open to get to her honest voice. Hustles on fire Charmay blurs to Cindy. Beats. Bullets. Bedsheets. When her identities collide in a fever of flashbacks and betrayals she is hurled into surviving the most horrific reckoning yet.</p><p></p><p><strong>FOR READERS OF:</strong></p><p>In the Cut • The Basketball Diaries • Cherry • Kerouac</p><p></p><p><strong>Multi-Media Experience:</strong></p><ul><li>SERIES: Book 1 of the Charmay: New York Noir series. Standalone. Book 2 coming soon.</li><li>SECOND EDITION: Writer's Edit Expanded & Revised November 2025.</li><li>COMPANION ALBUM: Skinless: Songs from the Book. Jazz-noir and downtempo written and performed inside the novel. Recordings featuring Kenny Rampton (Wynton Marsalis) and Eddie Ojeda (Twisted Sister).</li><li>SUBSTACK SERIES: Explore Skinless: Inside the Story. 9 Episodes + 2 on Next Chapter.</li><li></li></ul><p><strong>CRITICAL PRAISE FOR SKINLESS:</strong></p><p></p><p>A must-read... Moor tells Charmay's experiences with abuse and betrayal in stark unsentimental prose. - <em>IndieReader</em></p><p></p><p>Uncomfortable occasionally overwhelming and undeniably powerful... a portrait of survival that doesn't sanitize the mess. - <em>BookLife by Publishers Weekly</em></p><p></p><p>An eloquent crime novel-street poetry renders the city in lush sensual language and a heroine's raw will to live. - <em>Foreword Reviews</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Psychological Crime Noir-breathes like jazz.</strong></p><p>SKINLESS is an x-ray of the things we hide and the art that speaks through us-inside the mind of a woman on the margins of society-a raw look at how we adapt to survive. Stay with me growing. - <em>MM</em></p>