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Masquerade
Eros and Psyche, reunited on a floating city dedicated to their love story, and ensuring others get their happily ever afters...
Enola doesn’t believe in fate, but that doesn’t mean that fate has no use for her.
Born to the Sorrows, and condemned to a life of servitude, she chooses death at the bottom of the marshes she calls home. But an unseen hand (or two) opens a second door to escape – IF she’s got the courage to walk through it. When Enola finds an invitation to the fabled Masque while looting an abandoned carriage, she turns her destiny on its head and sends herself across the crystal sea in search of a way to save her family.
Enola’s soon swept away by the pomp and glamour of Masquerade, where Cupid's floating city fawns over anyone declared worthy of a mask and gown. Being chosen is addictive, and adoration breeds boldness in a girl who’s never known it. She begins to believe herself worthy of the place she’s stolen… until someone else steals her heart. The longer she remains, the further she falls into the delusion of the perfect, porcelain face in her mirror. Terrified of being exposed as a fraud, and wracked with guilt that she’s replaced the true love of someone she can’t help but care for, she still can’t convince herself to return the life she left behind.
But the Sorrows are in her veins, and they don’t give up their own, easily. Danger and conspiracy follow her, and the deeper she dives into the fairy tale, the more certain she is that there’s more at work than mortal hands and wills. Olympians are known to fight their wars with mortal lives, but unfortunately for the Fates, Discord, and anyone else reckless enough to tick her off, Enola has decided no one else will ever define her life, again.
Enola doesn’t believe in fate, but that doesn’t mean that fate has no use for her.
Born to the Sorrows, and condemned to a life of servitude, she chooses death at the bottom of the marshes she calls home. But an unseen hand (or two) opens a second door to escape – IF she’s got the courage to walk through it. When Enola finds an invitation to the fabled Masque while looting an abandoned carriage, she turns her destiny on its head and sends herself across the crystal sea in search of a way to save her family.
Enola’s soon swept away by the pomp and glamour of Masquerade, where Cupid's floating city fawns over anyone declared worthy of a mask and gown. Being chosen is addictive, and adoration breeds boldness in a girl who’s never known it. She begins to believe herself worthy of the place she’s stolen… until someone else steals her heart. The longer she remains, the further she falls into the delusion of the perfect, porcelain face in her mirror. Terrified of being exposed as a fraud, and wracked with guilt that she’s replaced the true love of someone she can’t help but care for, she still can’t convince herself to return the life she left behind.
But the Sorrows are in her veins, and they don’t give up their own, easily. Danger and conspiracy follow her, and the deeper she dives into the fairy tale, the more certain she is that there’s more at work than mortal hands and wills. Olympians are known to fight their wars with mortal lives, but unfortunately for the Fates, Discord, and anyone else reckless enough to tick her off, Enola has decided no one else will ever define her life, again.
324 pages, Paperback
Published January 3, 2023
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L.J. Hatton
12 books46 followersL.J. Hatton is a Texan, born and raised. She sometimes refers to the towns she’s lived in by the movies filmed in them, and if she wasn’t working as a professional pretender, she’d likely be holed up in a lab somewhere doing genetics research.
She is also the author of Sing Down the Stars, the first volume in her Celestine series.
Also see Josin L. McQuein.
She is also the author of Sing Down the Stars, the first volume in her Celestine series.
Also see Josin L. McQuein.
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