Skindancer

The Skindancer series is a series of urban fantasy books about Dakota Frost, a "skindancer" - a magical tattoo artist who can create tattoos that come to life.

In Dakota's world, magic, long suppressed by its own practicioners, burst out into the open when it was picked up by the counterculture movement of the 1960's.

Now, magic is alive in an alternative culture called the Edgeworld, and Edgeworlders like Dakota apply equal parts skepticism, magic and attitude to navigate the line where magic and reality meet.

Each book in the series highlights a new form of magic based on alternative culture practices like tattooing, graffiti or firespinning, and each highlights a new supernatural creature like werewolves, vampires and dragons.

The Skindancer series starts with Frost Moon, a period piece set in late 2006 in an Atlanta not entirely unlike our own...