Violet finally escapes from Madame Dita's circus, to keep a promise she made years ago. She soon finds her lullaby within an automation musical box of a monkey playing cymbals. Not sure of what the meaning of love is, she begins fall head over heels for a musical genius and his alluring music. Will he love her back? Will she prevent the great fire from destroying the world famous Opera Popularè?
Will Violet keep her promise to her mysterious friend of the past?
"Can I bring you back from a distant lullaby?...." ~Violet
*If you like murder, physical abuse, drama, tragedy, heartbreak, pain of any kind, friendship, love triangles, attempted suicide, attempted rape, heavy rain (not the video game, just rain in general), musicals, blood, Opera houses, evil fat women (we know you are thinking of Ursula from the little mermaid right now.), stalkers, the Victorian Era (Specifically, the 1870's), Masks, group friendship, original characters, hope loss, hope gained, kidnapping, music, group friendship, the circus, tightrope walker/dancer, aerial silk, loneliness, depression, wine and bread, and everyone's favourite a sex scene between two virgins or just a smut. Then add this book to your Library because it's gonna be a roller coaster with your emotions.
"What would you do if you were trapped in your favourite musical?"
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Annika Knight has a relatively normal life in the twenty-first century - she goes to college, has two crazy friends, and has enough family drama to occupy her nights. However, this soon changes one night when she is drawn to a disembodied voice calling to her from behind the old mirror in her bedroom.
Now in nineteenth-century Paris at the height of the Phantom of the Opera's antics, Annika is forced to navigate an unfamiliar world as she carves out her own narrative alongside the original story of her favourite musical. But as her love for the mysterious masked Phantom blossoms, she is forced with an impossible choice: allow the original story to play out as she has always known it, or divert the story in her favour?
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A Phantom of the Opera fanfiction set in the world of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the classic French tale by Gaston Leroux.
🥉Third place in the Quilling It Awards 2025