Locke Vinetti is a high school junior, disenchanted, and more than a little hostile. For years he’s had a problem with his anger—a force he calls “the venom”—that surfaced at age eight when he bit off a piece of a classmate’s nose. But everything changes when Locke meets the spiky blue–haired Goth girl of his dreams. He knows that if their relationship is going to work, he has to rid himself of the venom once and for all. Interspersed with comic book adventures of the fantasy alter-ego Locke has invented for himself, Venomous is a fast-paced, funny, and ferocious read.