Lady Victoria Ashdown will do anything to protect her inheritance and defeat her conniving stepmother, even if it means competing against the young, beautiful and talented debutantes in the most wicked social season in town...to find a charming husband. ***** Levi Everard was once a charmer, until he hid himself in his Standbury estate for reasons only he knows. Now, he is back in town, no longer the charmer, but the man forced to find Victoria Ashdown a husband, for friendship's sake. She is his good friend, he tells himself. Nothing more. And good friends are not supposed to kiss... *This story is a standalone title in the Everard Family series. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Santoro

Celeste came to the opera house as a place of refuge away from her abusive Father and has grown content in calling the Opera Populaire her home. When rumors start to surface about a mysterious Phantom that lives below the Opera house Celeste finds herself entangled in the Phantom's plan to gain Christine Daaé's affection. Slowly she finds herself starting to fall in love with him, but can the Phantom return the same love or will he forever pursue Christine... ______________ Based on The Phantom Of The Opera book by Gaston Leroux, the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and the 1990 TV mini series.

|| Book 1 of The Shadow's Melody || As a maid here at the new Opéra Populaire I can certainly sense something different. Something missing. It lacked him. The Opera Ghost who disappeared. I know I should let it go. I know I shouldn't constantly think about a dead man. A murderer. But I simply can't. I can't forget about that man I fell in love with those many years ago. I yearned to hear his angelic voice again. I begged for it. Hoped for it. Prayed for it. I called for him in my dreams. The man they called The Phantom of the Opera. I would never have guessed that my hopes and prayers would soon be answered.