Synopsis:

My soon-to-be-published novel Inked:
Tori Liddell has struggled through her twenties suffering from undiagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder. She documents her radical lifestyle changes and shifting identity through the colorful tattoos that cover her body. By disconnecting from her family and personal history she has widened the rift created by years of absence, but when her widowed mother reveals her battle with AIDS Tori returns to small town Oregon to facilitate her care. At her homecoming Tori faces her own mortality, the inevitable loss of her mother and her new enigmatic neighbor's interest. Tori also confronts the realization that things and people are not always the way she remembers as she searches for the meaning of home in the rubble of her past.

Inked is a window into the life of a woman struggling to overcome herself, her choices and a psychological affliction etched under her skin.

'Inked' is Renda's first novel. It will be released October 20, 2009. Pre-Order Inked Now!

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2009 First draft of the synopsis:

Jake has spent his life trying to live up to the status quo, but after his wife leaves him he moves in with his gay brother. Through the eclectic people who share his brother’s house Jake experiences what love, friendship, and living life should be through new relationships.