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In a village of masked men, magic
compels each man to love only one woman and to follow the
commands of his "goddess” without question. A woman may
reject the only man who will love her if she pleases, but
she will be alone forever. And a man must stay masked until
his goddess returns his love—and if she can’t or won’t, he
remains masked forever. Where the rest of her village
celebrates this mystery that binds men and women together,
seventeen year old Noll is just done with it.
She’s lost all her childhood friends as they’ve paired off,
but the worst blow was when her closest companion, Jurij,
finds his goddess in Noll’s own sister. Desperate to find a
way to break this ancient spell, Noll instead discovers why
no man has ever loved her: she is in fact the goddess of the
mysterious lord of the village, a Byronic man who refuses to
let Noll have her right as a woman to spurn him and who has
the power to fight the curse. Thus begins a dangerous game
between the two: the choice of woman versus the magic of
man. And the stakes are no less than freedom and happiness,
life and death—and neither Noll nor the veiled man is
willing to lose.