Masquerade

by Jenna Ryan

He possesses many faces...

He is dubbed the Phantom. A Fiend who kills actresses, who disguises his appearance...and who vanishes without a trace.
Only one man has the evidence to unmask the Phantom. When he mysteriously vanishes, he leaves two clues with friend Rielle Marchand. Rielle enlists the help of aristocratic Adrian Da Costa, and together, she and the compelling Brazilian begin a treacherous journey to expose the monster - and unexpectedly find that opposites attract in the most romantic and deadly way.

Somewhere at Brede manor, on the brooding, windswept Yorkshire coast, the Phantom awaits them. Surrounded by the ancient rites of English prehistory, he is cloaked in its arcane lore - and ready to enact a last ritual of death.

251 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Jenna Ryan was born in Victoria, British Columbia. After long stints in different cities across Canada, she returned home to Vancouver Island where she has lived ever since. She has had thirty-one books published in the Harlequin Intrigue series. Her ideas come from real life, and she is helped in her writing by her sister Kathy.

She enjoys reading and is a big fan of women's fiction, psychological suspense and mystery novels. She also enjoys watching classic suspense movies. She loves strong heroines, heroes with character, romance stories and a good whodunit by the fire on a rainy night.

Her heritage is a blend of English and Irish — which is probably where the gift of blarney comes from. She is unmarried, but involved with a wonderful man. She also has a little white cat named Sheena.

Whenever she is not writing, she travels as much as time and finances will allow. After North America, Europe is her favorite continent to explore, because it was in those countries that many of the myths and legends she drew upon in her early years of writing were born.

Growing up, she considered various careers and dabbled in several of them, including, after university, the travel industry, tourism, sales and modeling. Work in the fashion industry in Toronto and Montreal gave her an interesting peek into various aspects of that world. She learned that where money, power and people come together, there will always be unpredictability — an element she feels is essential to a strong mystery. Add a healthy measure of personal conflict, an intriguing setting and a spicy romance into the mix, and you have the ingredients for what she believes to be the best of all possible stories — a great romantic suspense.