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November 2013
On Sale: November 5, 2013
304 pages ISBN: 0756407591 EAN: 9780756407599 Kindle: B00C5R7FBS Hardcover / e-Book
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Fantasy
Masks, the first novel in a mesmerizing new fantasy
series, draws readers into a world in which cataclysmic
events have left the Autarchy of Aygrima—the one land
blessed with magical resources—cut off from its former
trading partners across the waters, not knowing if any of
those distant peoples still live. Yet under the rule of the
Autarch, Aygrima survives. And thanks to the creation of the
Masks and the vigilance of the Autarch’s Watchers, no one
can threaten the security of the empire. In
Aygrima, magic is a Gift possessed from birth by a very
small percentage of the population, with the Autarch himself
the most powerful magic worker of all. Only the
long-vanquished Lady of Pain and Fire had been able to
challenge his rule. At the age of fifteen, citizens
are recognized as adults and must don the spell-infused
Masks—which denote both status and profession—whenever they
are in public. To maintain the secure rule of the kingdom,
the Masks are magically crafted to reveal any treasonous
thoughts or actions. And once such betrayals are exposed,
the Watchers are there to enforce the law. Mara
Holdfast, daughter of the Autarch’s Master Maskmaker, is
fast approaching her fifteenth birthday and her
all-important Masking ceremony. Her father himself has been
working behind closed doors to create Mara’s Mask. Once the
ceremony is done, she will take her place as an adult, and
Gifted with the same magical abilities as her father, she
will also claim her rightful place as his apprentice.
But on the day of her Masking something goes horribly
wrong, and instead of celebrating, Mara is torn away from
her parents, imprisoned, and consigned to a wagon bound for
the mines. Is it because she didn’t turn the unMasked boy
she discovered over to the Night Watchers? Or is it because
she’s lied about her Gift, claiming she can only see one
color of magic, when in truth she can see them all, just as
she could when she was a young child? Whatever the
reason, her Mask has labeled her a traitor and now she has
lost everything, doomed to slavery in the mines until she
dies. And not even her Gift can show Mara the future that
awaits her—a future that may see her freed to aid a rebel
cause, forced to become a puppet of the Autarch, or
transformed into a force as dangerous to her world as the
legendary Lady of Pain and Fire.
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