"My feet pounded the soft earth as rain spit upon me, as so many others had. I could hear his yelling, it barreled around my ears; falling into my skull and murdering my brain. But, I had to keep running. Now, it was the only thing I could do; I couldn't and wouldn't go back; it was either freedom or death. But a camp, where I am ridiculed is no life for me." Genderbend :)

June Benoît knew only of the quiet life in homely North Carolina. Set in early 1920's, June finds something about herself; she can cook, quite well at that! So well that her brother takes her away for her first job in Paris; working at the Palais Garnier. Finding herself mainly alone she attempts to fend for herself, however, there is someone watching her other than her brother.

I hurried below deck when the other boat approached; I wanted nothing to do with it. However, both my parents and Sophie were called above deck; I refused to leave below deck. It was around half an hour later when they came hurrying back down the stairs, pushing one another. "What's the matter?" I asked, shooting up from my seat; there was a gunshot, a deafening one, canon fire.

Persephone loved her mother very much, that is, until she was murdered. When this tragedy struck she was placed with the only person who could support her, her uncle Firmin. Reluctantly, M. Firmin takes his niece to the Paris Opera House, and puts her to work as a servant. Not the most ideal job, that is, until she meets someone who turns her life around.

What if Raoul had married Meg in stead of Christine? And, in consequence to this, they have a daughter and some thirty years later decide to visit the jolly old land of France again? What happens if they find the Opera House abandoned, but, there is most definitely someone inside?