Mask of the Night

"She felt that for the whole of her life she had been listening, straining after one pivotal melody, trying to catch a few notes that would clarify the parameters of her existence..."
- Mary Ryan

Few novelists are able to compare with Dion Fortune when it comes to couching metaphysical truths in the guise of entertaining fiction.
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Enter Mary Ryan. While she is no match for the likes of the incredible nineteenth century master Marie Corelli, she might very well be able to entertain the late Dion Fortune's fans.
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Beginning in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century, Gothic intrique and romance mix with spooky Venetian talismans and reincarnation for a rather unique story which slips forward and backward in time. Any one who enjoyed The Thirteenth Tale will probably like this as well.