Erik Destler has given up on life. After he let his angel, Christine Daee, go with the Vicomte, Raoul De Chagny, he was left with a hollow emptiness that would not be filled. So, his heart broken beyond repair, he goes into his coffin bed to die of a broken heart.......or so he thought!
Evangeline McKenna is a 18-year-old African American teenager living in Atlanta, Georgia who loves Broadway Musicals, especially The Phantom of the Opera, and dreams of going to New York to become a star. But on her way home from school one day, she gets into a car accident that makes her go back in time to 19th century Paris, France and meet a Phantom near death's door.
Based on Susan Kay, Gaston Leroux, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom stories.
WARNING: Contains content that might not be suitable for younger audiences.
WILL CONTAIN CHRISTIAN THEMES!
Shoutout to @niahouston for her amazing cover art!
*OLD STORY*
As a writer, Emma knows better than anyone that characters exist to suffer. Her motto has always been "Help the plot, hurt the characters."
That changes when, after being knocked unconscious in a dreadful car accident, she wakes up in a world that's not her own; a world where all her dreams come true. Unfortunately, not all dreams are good ones. And the opera ghost? Well, that wasn't exactly one of her best dreams.
Now that the characters are as real to her as she is, is she still willing to advance the plot at their expense? Does she even have the power to make that decision? The song says she'll live as she's never lived before; surely that's true, but is it a good thing? That's up to her.
Tied for 1st place in the Erik x OC section of @BrendaDaaeDestler's Phantom's Rose Awards