Not All Heroes
Alienated from his co-workers and fearful of expressing himself, Chad's perspective is changed by an encounter with a mysterious stranger and a fantastic tale.…
No Exemption for Actors
Rafe lived his life playing dead. Now he is dead, the playing's just started.This novel takes place over the same time period as the first two Mortal Masquerade novels "Love Me to the End" and "The Hungry Garden" and includes alternate perspectives of some of those novels' events, along with a whole load of new characters, settings and events.Cover image adapted from The Tragic Actor (Rouvière as Hamlet)Édouard Manet 1866…
Welcome to Ketherton: An Introduction to the Mortal Masquerade
How to get started with the novels, novellas and universe of the Mortal Masquerade.…
Love Me To The End
Lexie is gender non-conforming horror geek, a dreamer with a deathwish. Through her lover Maise she discovers the Mortal Masquerade, an underground club centred around playful mock death scenes and flamboyant masked avatars, headed by the mysterious Uncle Morbid. What secrets lie behind the crazy stunts and twisted psychological games of the Mortal Masquerade? And what is the significance of the strange dreams and recurring memories that keep resurfacing throughout their time together?The first novella in the Mortal Masquerade series, the subtitle Love Me To The End is inspired by the song by German darkwave band Deine Lakaien, which holds a bittersweet significance for our protagonists. Check it out on your music provider of choice.…
The Hungry Garden
The second novel in the Mortal Masquerade series.Fully initiated into the reality of the Mortal Masquerade, Lexie and Chris begin working with an artist by the name of Wilco on a woodland playground full of automated people-eating plants and animals. Lexie and Maise take on the alter-egos of a pair of Victorian melodramatic heroines, another character releases their inner self and an encounter with a fledgling magic theatre leads to further revelations about the Masquerade and its custodians.…
The Wonder Emporium
Darryl De'vante is a professional magician in a post-mortal plane of reality, working alongside a tormented burlesque performer, a conjurer from magic's golden age and an unaging trans child housing a cosmic entity to build a little piece of heaven for souls that require it. Also, he was born a girl. In the great cosmic magic show, the real secret isn't always the one you're thinking of. The Wonder Emporium is part of a series of novelettes and short stories expanding the universe of the Mortal Masquerade novels, which can be found at https://jackieyaga.co.uk .…
Only Child
"Without mess there is no life."David did not fit in at school. He saw and drew patterns that no-one seemed to understand. He asked awkward questions which got him into trouble. But David had loving and supportive parents, a cosmic purpose on a post-mortal plane and an inner self named Triana.Told from the point of view of Triana's father, Only Child is a stand alone novella expanding the universe of the Mortal Masquerade series.…