It’s a dark, smog-choked new Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious police commissioner Jatin Bhatt – an irresistible attraction that could destroy both their lives.

Jatin’s home life is falling apart: his handsome and charming son is not all he appears to be, and his wife has too much on her plate to pay attention to either husband or son. But Jatin refuses to listen to anyone, not even the sister to whom he is deeply attached.

Across the city there is a crime spree: slum women found stuffed in trash bags, faces and bodies disfigured by acid. And as events spiral out of control Anjali is horrifyingly at the centre of it all …

In a sordid world of poverty, misogyny, and political corruption, Jatin must make some hard choices. But what he unearths is only the tip of the iceberg. Together with Anjali he must confront old wounds and uncover long-held secrets before it is too late.

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You Beneath Your Skin has had a long journey, from being an Amazon bestseller in India, where it was first published, to receiving wonderful reviews from across the world. All proceeds from the book go to two non-profits: Project WHY, which works for underprivileged children and women in New Delhi, and Stop Acid Attacks, which works to empower acid attack survivors.

Now that You Beneath Your Skin has been optioned for screen by Endemol Shine and might soon be a web series, my hope for the book is to raise more awareness of acid attack survivors and their struggles. When Susan Kaye Quinn announced the Writers on the Moon Project, I decided to send in You Beneath Your Skin, because while the book finds its way here across our planet, it is a wonderful thought to have the story of many brave women who survive acid attacks represented, quite literally, on the moon.