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The Skin Books (or INK) trilogy is a series of young adult fantasy/dystopian novels written by Alice Broadway. Ink, the first book in the trilogy, was her debut novel. The publication rights were acquired by Scholastic UK for a three-book deal in early 2016. The books follow main protagonist, Leora Flint, who lives in a society where every significant moment, good or bad, is tattooed onto your skin and then preserved in a 'skin book' once you die. However, the blank community do not follow this practice, leaving their skin free of ink, which has caused a divide between the people of Saintstone and the blanks of Featherstone, and has resulted in a continued feud. When Leora uncovers secrets about her father, the blanks, and her true origin, the uneasy truce between the two societies is broken as the truths from both sides are unveiled. Leora and her allies wish for peace between Saintstone and Featherstone, while others within both communities wish for war and the destruction of the other. Broadway began writing the book in order to process her "crisis of faith" after leaving the evangelical community she and her family had been a part of due to feeling bullied and manipulated. She shares her sense of loss and idea of no longer belonging within a community after a lifetime of living by their rules with her main protagonist, Leora.