A Novel by Marie Terrell

THE MASK

Sometimes, the face you hide
isn't the real you.

THE MASK book cover by Marie Terrell

The Premise

Every mirror tells
a second story.

Behind every mirror she's ever stood before, someone else has been standing too — smiling when she couldn't, staying calm when she couldn't, surviving what she wasn't sure she would.

When the mask arrives without explanation — old, engraved, and impossibly familiar — she begins to wear it in the moments she can't bear to be herself. At first it feels like armor. Then it feels like company. By the time she understands what it actually is, she's no longer certain which face is borrowed, and which one was always hers to begin with.

The Mask is a novel about the selves we assemble to get through the day — the ones we choose, the ones we inherit, and the one, if we're honest, we've never quite met.

Literary Fiction · Psychological Drama · 384 pages

The Reveal

Every star
knows your other face.

Scroll, and watch what's underneath find its shape.

“The face you show the room
is never the one that gets you home.”

— from The Mask

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The Author

Marie Terrell

Marie Terrell writes fiction about the quiet negotiations people make with themselves — who they let the world see, and who they keep in reserve. The Mask is her latest novel, drawn from years of watching how gracefully, and how exhaustingly, people learn to perform themselves.

She lives for stories that sit in the space between the mirror and the door — the last look before someone steps out and becomes who they're expected to be.

Available Now

Take off the mask.
Or don't.

Either way, you'll want to see what's under it. The Mask is available wherever books are sold.

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