Then the statue opens her eyes, and has nightmares about a shipwreck. Slowly dying from loneliness, Erik buys clay from a crone and moulds a woman who will not look at him in disgust. Īnother world, where a boat from Sweden to France was wrecked, drowning a violinist and his daughter. Erik peers behind the mirror to gaze upon Christine and draw her portrait.Ĭhristine has run off with Raoul to fondly look back on their childhood, but when Erik comes for her she slips into a nightmare. But, when a room of mirrors is designed, death becomes the next courtier. Salome, a dancer for the cruel child-empress, encounters the court genie – a masked man who calls himself Erik. When he goes to the Opera, who will he find? It has been twenty years since Christine rejected his proposal. Yet her father always warned her a monster lives down there.Įrik’s home under the Opera house has flooded, and he must find somewhere to shelter from the rain. Alone and struggling to survive as a lace maker, she finds herself at the edge of the Seine, following a beautiful song. In another world, Christine Daaé never went to the Opera house. When Christine receives a mysterious package, Meg notices a curious change in her friend.Īt a festival of masks, a nightingale asks a riddle that stumps all but the crow. These are her choices, and the consequences of each one. Tales set before, during and after the catastrophic events of The Phantom of the Opera, and others in entirely different worlds. Stories seen through different eyes: Meg’s as she notices odd changes in Christine’s demeanor, Raoul looking back on what could have been, Christine torn between two lovers, and Erik’s descent into madness and loneliness. Who will she pick? Raoul de Chagny, her childhood friend, who is rich, handsome and kind? Or Erik? The Phantom? A man who can create and destroy, who terrifies her yet understands and nurtures the potential within her? In this collection of fifteen short stories inspired by Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera, Christine Daaé finds herself in strange realms, but one thing is always certain – the two men she must choose between. It is also available on Kindle Unlimited. Hi :) I just wanted to share my recently released story collection.
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