Hi everyone! We are delighted to announce that we’re organizing a Book Promo Tour for What Lies Within Masks & Shadows by Nicolle May. This tour will run from February 23rd to March 1st, 2026 and we’d love for you to join! 😍
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They made her kneel. So, she would see them burn…
Throne of Glass meets The Witcher and Once Upon a Time in this heart-wrenching, high fantasy romance packed with trauma healing, epic magic, and high-stakes rebellion.
What Lies Within Masks & Shadows is the first book in thePromises of the Marked series and and it’s out now!
Add it to your TBR if you love:
🖤Morally gray MMC with scars
🥀High heat slow burn spice
🖤Medieval fantasy setting
🥀Shadow Magic
🖤Epic battles and magic
🥀White fire magic
🖤He’s still a damsel in distress but no one knows
🥀She desperately needs to know what REAL love is
🖤Who hurt HIM
🥀Touch HER and find your head on the ground
🖤Banter
🥀DV & Mental health rep
🖤MAJOR hurt/ comfort
🥀Fantasy Traumance / romantasy
Make sure you read the full synopsis below of What Lies Within Masks & Shadows & to sign up if you are interested. We cannot wait to tour this gorgeous read with you!! 📖🖤
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Tour Details:
– We are looking for 10+ bookstagrammers to feature the book in their feeds!
– Hosts will receive digital copies of What Lies Within Masks & Shadows!
– Reviews are not required for this tour, but they are always appreciated.
– As always, it is open Internationally!
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Here’s more about the book:
What Lies Within Masks & Shadows by Nicolle May
Series: Promises of the Marked #1
on February 27th, 2024
Genres: Fantasy Traumance, Romantasy
Pages: 532
Format: eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
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Throne of Glass meets The Witcher and Once Upon a Time in this heart-wrenching, high fantasy romance packed with trauma healing, epic magic, and high-stakes rebellion.
"What could be worse than death?"They made her kneel. So, she would see them burn...
Alora—a Marked One—is bound to a fate of suffering. Therefore, when Lord Kaine takes her as his lady, life under his status and within his manor should have offered her everything—including safety.
Except, in the darkness, Alora is a dying star, an explosion contained by his will and cruelty. Waiting for the day she’ll blaze a light so intense it would burn at the edges of shadow itself, she endures her destined torment.
But outside his walls, evil terrorizes Elysian, and as the Savage Prince sets his attention on Alora next, the lines between monster and savior blur. Her desire for freedom becomes tainted, and a new price must be paid. With rumors of his cruelty, ruthlessness, and unrelenting power, Alora's trust is not easily earned. She can't help feeling like she's exchanged one monster for another—a lord for a prince. A betrothed for a shadow beast.
Can Alora ever truly be free under those who have bound themselves to her?
Or will her only escape sit masked in shadow?What Lies Within Masks & Shadows is the first book in a new series featuring a morally gray hero with powers of darkness, enemies-to-lovers, "traumance", banter, dark secrets, and captivating, action-packed adventure with slow burn romance.Welcome to the darkened world of Elysian. Welcome to What Lies Within Masks & Shadows. Authors Readers are encouraged to check the trigger warnings inside. This is an adult book that touches on very dark themes.
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About Nicolle May
Nicolle is an ADHD Fantasy “Traumance” author. When she isn’t living in a fantasy world or writing, she’s ruthlessly annoying those she loves with her outbursts of song, TV show quotes, and the occasional blonde moment. If you cannot find her snuggled up with her cats watching any fantasy movie or show known to man, you can find her at the gym becoming her own hero, sewing, reading, or vividly hallucinating new scene ideas for her books. She lives in Alberta, Canada, but was born and raised in Pennsylvania. And if you put anything peach, potato, or peanut butter with chocolate related in front of her ... prepare to be best friends.
“If Henry Cavill & Ian Somerhalder ever star in a movie together, I will spontaneously combust.”
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