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    Tears and Crimson Velvet: Legacy of the Mask, #2
    Tears and Crimson Velvet: Legacy of the Mask, #2
    Tears and Crimson Velvet: Legacy of the Mask, #2
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    Tears and Crimson Velvet: Legacy of the Mask, #2

    By A L Butcher

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    Madame Giry finds herself embroiled in the tragedy unfolding at the Opera house; mystery and murder stalk the corridors and, it is said, a ghost haunts the place. Giry knows the truth, for she recalls the caged man she met so many years ago. This is her story, their story.

     

    When murder and mystery begin at the Opera House one woman knows who is behind it, and what really lies beneath the mask. 

    Secrets, lies and tragedy sing a powerful song in this 'might have been' tale.

     

    A short, tragic tale based on characters from Phantom of the Opera.

     

    Winner of the NN Light Book Heaven short story award 2020.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA L Butcher
    Release dateFeb 4, 2018
    ISBN9781386985150
    Tears and Crimson Velvet: Legacy of the Mask, #2
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    A L Butcher

    British-born Alexandra Butcher (a/k/a  A. L. Butcher) is an avid reader and creator of worlds, a poet, and a dreamer, a lover of science, natural history, history, and monkeys. Her prose has been described as ‘dark and gritty’ and her poetry as evocative.  She writes with a sure and sometimes erotic sensibility of things that might have been, never were, but could be.

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