Mina Daaรฉ dreams of performing on Broadway. Like her great ancestor, Christine Daaรฉ, who sang at the prestigious Palais Garnier a hundred years before, Mina has the voice of an angel. But after graduating from Conservatoire de Paris, fortune fails her. Until the circus comes to town.
Minaโs close friend Toni Vollini offers her a role in his new Broadway play mixing Mozart with clowns. Known asย The Harlequin, the musical is an inimitable adaptation of the operaย Don Giovanni. Toni says Mina will soar, but with pathologic acrophobia, sheโs afraid sheโll fall. And the ghost in her head says she will.ย
Toni and a ghost vie for her love, but Mina thinks her ghost is just another hallucination. Or is her ghost a phantom of the opera?
Phantom Masqueradeย is a contemporary adaptation of Gaston Lerouxโsย Phantom of the Operaย integrating romance and the paranormal.
Phantom Masquerade is a standalone novel in the Phantom Hearts Series. All three books were grouped into this collection with the common theme of supernatural romance and ghostly suspense. They have different characters and settings.ย Each novel can be enjoyed separately as a complete standalone story without reading the preceding, or subsequent, book.
Content warning: There are adult situations, language and sexual scenes.ย
A.L. Hawke lives in Southern California torching the midnight candle over lovers against a backdrop of machines, nymphs, magic, spice and mayhem. The author has publishes books specializing in fantasy romance and science fiction.