My FAVE indie series is by first-time novelist Misha Burnett, the Catskinner series.

I read and reread the series, then begged Misha on Facebook to write the next novel in the series, since he left the story hanging after four books.

Premise: ordinary, skinny guy just wants a normal life, but his parents bound him to an alien energy (using a tattoo) when he was a baby..one that loves to kill.

He's worked out a compromise with "Catskinner," his alien energy rider; he won't kill himself if Catskinner will listen to him and only kill when he allows it.

He makes a lot of money as a hired killer, but gradually begins to realize that the people he works with, and many in his neighborhood also are "different" - having bargained with other alien entities in exchange for certain powers.

As he begins to realize the world is different than he thought..he finds that even the beautiful woman who he loves isn't as she seems..

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