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A Child's Guidance ~~ Released: June 30, 2007

The year is 1838. Erik is only a small child when he first discovers his great passion for music. Just before his third birthday, he listens to his mother playing the piano, and with excitement, he realizes his life will always be filled with music. Sadly though, along with that powerful and comforting emotion, there is also sorrow. Erik’s mother fears him because of his facial deformity, and his heart is forever scarred by her rejection. His father loves and protects him and tries to guide his young son’s rapidly growing genius mind and disturbed heart. Nevertheless, Erik’s soul begins to fill with loathing for the world that shuns him, causing him to wage a fierce battle between murderous hatred and compassionate love.

Erik’s temper erupts violently at times, endangering the lives of those around him as well as his own. Ultimately, he is abandoned and left alone to battle not only a world destined to cause him harm but also his tortured heart.

Forsaken ~~ Released October 13, 2008

The year is 1846. Erik is caught in the middle of a tragedy that will forever change his life. He finds himself abandoned and fleeing his home in Perros-Guirec, France to safeguard his freedom. While he hated most of the people in his home town, the people he encounters in the world outside of it are cruel beyond his imagination, and he, on more than one occasion, barely escapes with his life. While most people are heartless, there are a few kind ones who have compassion for poor Erik and his miserable plight. It is their kindness that enables him to continue toward his goal of Venice, Italy.

Erik’s stature grows until he is taller than most men, and his brilliance also continues to grow until it is beyond the reach of all. While his physical and mental abilities intimidate most, and Erik continues to feel he is nothing more than a deformed reject, many women are more than attracted to the man he is becoming – the man that is destined to enchant the feminine heart with his voice along with his maturing masculinity.  

Mon Ami ~~ Released December 22, 2009

By the year 1856, Erik is an adult and gaining wealth by singing and playing his violin at Gypsy carnivals. When winter approaches, he prepares to leave the cold of Russia for the warmer climate of southern Italy. However, his curiosity is piqued by a conversation he overhears between a Persian man and a Gypsy leader. As a result, he journeys toward Persia. There, the mighty Shah commissions him to build a magnificent palace filled with deadly yet life-saving secrets.

Using his breathtaking music and political prowess, he gains the Shah’s admiration. Then, because of that admiration and Erik’s refusal to bow down to any man, he also gains many enemies. Outmaneuvering them with the use of his brilliant mind, he stays several steps ahead of them, which make many believe he has mystic powers.

During those years in Persia, one man sees something extraordinary in Erik. Then, despite his refusal to let anyone into his battered heart, Erik can finally call someone Mon Ami. Ultimately, that friendship becomes the link that allows them to survive a life-and-death battle against two powerful nations, crying out for their blood. From then on, that friendship alters both men’s paths dramatically—and forever.

Shrouded Castle ~~ Projected release date: September 2010

The year is 1860. Erik leaves Persia, believing, more than ever, that he is a curse on whoever tries to befriend him. He travels to Paris and is inspired to participate in the building of what was to become the famed Paris Opera House. He remembers his young years and his desire to live within the walls of an opera house and is intrigued with the idea of building himself a home beneath the streets of Paris.

As with other portions of his life, his efforts to build his home are thwarted by the Franco-Prussian War and the takeover by the Commune. But again, as with the other obstacles in his solitary travels, he is undaunted in his efforts to stay true to his goals and to hide from the world.

Once his home is completed, he spends his time alone with his music and a horse he considers his own. When not in those pursuits, he uses his quick wit and sense of humor to tease the young chorus girls, or play tricks on the Opera Populaire’s managers, which fuels the legend of the Opera Ghost.

Through it all, the one man who considers Erik his friend, refuses to be turned away by Erik’s harsh demeanor and continues in his efforts to stay in contact with him.  While his persistance angers Erik at times, it is that anger that one day initiiates his first encounter with the woman who will change his life forever, Christine.

Christine ~~ Projected release date: April 2011

The year is 1881. The lonely man, Erik, enters a period in his life when his full passion is born in the form of the young chorus girl, Christine. Once he meets her, his obsession for her is fueled by years of distressing solitude, and she becomes the woman he loves and the woman he must have as his own.

His deformity is the first obstacle standing in the way of making her fall in love with him, but her childhood sweetheart, Raoul, is the bigger obstacle and the biggest challenge. He meets these challenges, while he also keeps his managers doing his will, which is to make Christine’s career a success. 

Erik works patiently to gain the trust and love of Christine, while, at the same time, he meets the challenge presented by Raoul’s youth and handsome appearance. Violent encounters are inevitable in any love triangle, but, considering Erik’s past life and deformed emotions, the encounters become death-dealing.

Unmasked Hearts -- Projected release date: October 2011

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Volumes Seven and Eight

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