MASKS BETWEEN TWO HEARTS: An Online Romance of Lies Paperback – December 4, 2025

A love story born in isolation. A vanishing act written in ice.During the pandemic’s deepest isolation, two fractured souls find each other in the blue glow of their screens: Liam, an American anthropologist haunted by the moral wreckage of his work in Iraq, and Anja, a Swedish spiritual therapist offering ancient Sámi songs as balm for the soul.Their connection is intense, intellectual, and feels like salvation. Eager for a new life, Liam journeys to her remote Arctic cabin, a place of breathtaking beauty and profound silence.But the pristine wilderness holds mirrors, not answers. Anja’s serene healing masks a history of fierce, desperate violence. Liam’s clinical detachment hides a capacity for calculated harm. As their digital fantasies collide with freezing reality, they are drawn into a dangerous, intimate pact a ritual that promises to purge their pasts but demands a terrifying price.What happens when the only person who truly sees you, sees the monster you’ve tried to bury?A hauntingly original thriller that is both a page-turning mystery and a profound meditation on trauma, identity, and the terrifying vulnerability of connection in the digital age. Read more