As the Lady of Grace, Valessa wears a bone-white mask to preside over a ritual that ends lives in the name of mercy. Haunted by the deaths she helps enact and desperate to subvert her father’s cruel laws, she sabotages the ceremony in secret and rescues a few lucky souls. When her sister is seized and a dangerous stranger with a cinderhawk appears, Valessa must choose between duty and rebellion. Mask of the Lady of Grace is a tense, character-driven fantasy about courage, the cost of compassion, and the lengths one woman will go to reclaim her family and her identity. Filled with moral ambiguity, subtle magic, and the slow burn of forbidden connection, this novel charts a perilous path from ritual compliance to outright resistance.
As the Lady of Grace, Valessa wears a bone-white mask to preside over a ritual that ends lives in the name of mercy. Haunted by the deaths she helps enact and desperate to subvert her father’s cruel laws, she sabotages the ceremony in secret and rescues a few lucky souls. When her sister is seize...