The stakes are no less than freedom and happiness, life and death-and neither Noll nor the veiled lord is willing to lose.įans of Tamlin in A Court of Thorns and Roses, Rhys in A Court of Mist and Fury, the Darkling in the Grisha Trilogy's Shadow and Bone, and Jareth in Jim Henson's Labyrinth will devour this Beauty and the Beast-style romantic adventure. Thus begins a dangerous game between the choice of woman and the magic of man. She is in fact the goddess of the mysterious lord of the village, a man who refuses to let Noll have her right as a woman to spurn him. Desperate to find a way to break this ancient spell, Noll instead discovers why no man has ever chosen her. Seventeen-year-old Noll’s childhood friends have paired off and her closest companion, Jurij, found his goddess in Noll’s own sister. A man must stay masked until his goddess returns his love-and if she can’t or won’t, he remains masked forever. A woman may reject the only man who will love her if she pleases, but she will be alone forever. In a village of masked men, each man is compelled to love only one woman and to follow the commands of his “goddess” without question. A series readers are calling 'spectacular and heartbreaking.' The first book is the winner of The Romance Reviews' Summer 2016 Readers' Choice Award in Young Adult Romance. By learning to forgive and seek forgiveness, Noll finally understands true love of a free heart - along with true sacrifice.Get the complete three-book The Never Veil Series for less in this Amazon-exclusive e-book box set that offers over 800 pages of fantasy romance content.

When someone who loves her discovers the same things and betrays her, Noll feels powerless to stop her village’s fate. Escorted to a land beyond the mountains, Noll uncovers the truth about her village and the strange occurrences in which she’s had a hand. With the lord’s return, Noll feels confident that together, they can work to settle down the villagers, but in his rebirth, he remembers only one thing about her: that she caused the curse that tortured him for a millennium in the first place.ĭetermined to start anew, Noll must accept that, romantically, she and the lord are better without one another, but she’ll need his help to uncover what’s really behind all of the suffering in her village. Noll knows too well that the men in her village have adjusted poorly to the freedom of their hearts, but she hopes to bring peace back to her community.

Nobody's Pawn by Amy McNulty