Your Body is My Prison - Tapa blanda

Michelle fights to free herself from the alien imprisoned in her body whose sentence is measured in blood. After surviving a car accident that kills her brother and paralyzes her mother, Michelle has to deal with her stepfather’s lust and hatred. Just as she thinks her life cannot get any worse, she discovers an alien living inside of her body as his own personal prison for committing murder on his planet. As if Michelle's paralyzed mother, angry stepfather, and the alien-murderer living inside of her isn’t enough; she discovers the only way for him to be free of her body, is to experience pain and death through her dreams as her spirit drifts into a victim. Everything that happens to the victim happens to her body as well. The alien is a healer and can heal her wounds after her nightmares, but does his healing have limits?

Oksana Leslie was born in the USSR to the family of a Russian doctor and a Ukrainian musician. This is where her passion for the written word began, a passion she embraces today as an American citizen in her second language, English. She is a published author in Russia. She has a master’s degree in Russian language and literature. She has her own blog for Russian immigrants where they can read about life in America at www.oksanaleslie.com. She is a mother of three boys, a blood donor, and a CEO of a family business, Leslie Painting and Home Renovations, LLC. As a teenager, Oksana devoured science fiction and dreamed of being a writer. Your Body Is My Prison is her first sci-fi horror novel. The name “Tavy from Cassiopeia” came to her when she was eleven years old, and she began writing the book in 2008. She has rewritten it many times in Russian and in English. Oksana’s hobbies are gardening, yoga and Zumba, photography, reading, and blogging. Oksana rarely watches TV and never plays computer games. She also does not like cooking and cleaning, but is an expert in both, because everyone is a body prisoner in a way.