Analysis Of Adriana Anders's Under Her Skin

Adriana Anders is an American author that hails from the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Appalachians. Her writing is best described as dark romance that is full of heart yet smart. Her debut novel Under Her Skin was written in 2014 and was first published in 2017. Over the years, Anders has taken a variety of jobs ranging from correcting copy, slinging cocktails, singing, and acting. She has also worked for small nonprofits, multinationals, and stat ups. However, she has always had a love for romance having been a voracious reader of the genre during her childhood and more youthful years. As such, it was only a matter of time before she went back to her first love when she decided to revive her interest in writing fiction in 2013. Signing up with

She loved being in the library, particularly one isolated corner in the basement which made the perfect venue for her fantasy rendezvous with her princes. Unfortunately, as much as she loved libraries and librarians, they often turned out to be her worst enemies particularly when it came to school attendance. Anders collected library books throughout her high school and middle school years, binge reading them like a maniac. She would often pull all nighters and then had to fake illnesses the morning because she spent her entire night with Julie Garwood or Barbara Michaels. When she left for college, her parents were left with a mountain of books she had conveniently forgotten to return to the library. They probably had to pay substantial fines for her years of hoarding. She still has a problem returning library books probably because she always likes a good book and hates to part with one before reading it two or three times. Today, she lives with her French husband, their two children, and a French fat cat in a small town overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains from where she writes her emotional, gritty, and dark

Uma is running from an abusive boyfriend that just spent the night torturing her by covering her body full of tattoos. Arriving in the small town of Blackwood, VA, she heads to a local skin clinic where she has heard there may be free tattoo removal services for abused victims. Finding a job with an elderly woman that needs a live in companion, she is soon attracted to a self-defense teacher and metalworker Ivan who lives in the house next door. The playful, growing trusts, integrity, kindness, and steamy chemistry soon starts building up between the two as they hope to start a long-term relationship. Anders writes an emotional tale full of an interesting cast of characters such as the local bar tender, Ivan’s sister, Uma’s reclusive employer and the