Chapter 1: An Actor Prepares

Rafe lived his life playing dead. Now he is dead, the playing's just started.

This novel takes place over the same time period as the first two Mortal Masquerade novels "Love Me to the End" and "The Hungry Garden" and includes alternate perspectives of some of those novels' events, along with a whole load of new characters, settings and events.

Cover image adapted from The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet)
Édouard Manet 1866