MASK OF SWORDS short excerpt

Let’s have a short excerpt from MASK OF SWORDS! Note that it has spoilers for a few of the previous seven DEMONSOULED books.

“What is it?” said Mazael.

“That letter,” said Romaria. “When you looked at it…the Sight came upon me.”

“The Sight?” said Mazael with a flicker of alarm. The usurper Malaric had almost killed Romaria, and Riothamus had healed her, but the process had left its mark upon her in the form of the Sight. It let her see magical auras and sometimes showed her glimpses of far-off places and the future. “What did you see?”

She shook her head, hair brushing against her shoulders. “Nothing clear. I thought I saw a…mask made out of swords?”

“Sounds painful,” said Mazael. “Might be useful for shaving, though.”

-JM