Project: Masked

Living as a ward to hide from her family’s political enemies, Lialora vividly remembers the life taken from her on the day of her mother’s murder. When she is bid to return to her homeland to claim her family title on her twentieth birthday, her life of luxury hasn’t prepared for the trials to come.

After a brazen assassination attempt is thwarted at the last moment, Lialora is determined to find out who is pulling the strings before they send someone again. Even if that means traveling to the Allarion Empire, the very same nation she spent a decade hiding from.

As even the roads to the Empire are dangerous, she is accompanied by three skilled mercaries as her guards. But between the desperate bandits and malicious Fae along the roads, the new companions will need to learn to trust one another if they want to reach the Empire’s borders alive.