In Masks, Mara Holdfast’s life changed forever. As the little girl from the Autarch’s Master Maskmaker, she experienced a clearly defined future: a noiseless, ordered lifestyle in the capital, producing Masks with her dad and doing work important to the ruling Autarch. However when her Mask, specially made by her very own father, cracked and dropped to items during her Masking ceremony, Mara was exiled from everything she once understood. Now she has become element of an underground rebellion, rejecting the unjust rules of a Masked culture. She must make an effort to understand her unprecedented ability to make use of all types of magic-and to tear magic from the living bodies of these around her. But Mara provides yet to discover just how horrifying her power can be..