Out of the Darkness Sadie Montgomery's 2nd novel

[Sadie Montgomery]

Hi,

Just wanted to mention here in a separate thread that my second novel, Out of the Darkness: The Phantom's Journey, is available at Amazon, barnesandnoble etc...

The story of what happened to the Phantom and the other principals of the movie after he disappeared through the window is the main thrust of The Phoenix of the Opera. In the first novel, Erik has to decide how to survive with a broken heart. The police are after him. But fortunately for him, Meg won't let him bury himself away under the streets of Paris.

The second novel continues the story where The Phoenix leaves off. Either novel can be read alone, but it makes much more sense to read them in order.

Cheers, Sadie

[phantomluver4ever1]

I made a trailer for the book, but first read what it says on the side. Here is the link:

[ftp]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RedjEik3nW8[/ftp]

[Sadie Montgomery]

Hi phantomluver4ever1,

I love the trailer for Out of the Darkness: The Phantom's Journey. Thanks so much for basing this on my novel.

Out of the Darkness, Book II in the Phoenix of the Opera series, continues the story of Erik and Meg from the end of The Phoenix of the Opera. Here is the opening scene:

The coachman warned him that he would drive the team into the ground if he did not relent and rein them in. They had traversed many miles since passing the border from France. Erik flicked the whip above the mane of the lead horse forcing it on down the road. Sorrow and anger spurred him on and left him no choice but to careen heedlessly toward his destiny. Behind him Christine.
Behind him his life in the Paris opera house, his protective labyrinth of tunnels and vaults, his papier maché world among thespians and divas and the treasure of exotic and fabulous properties with which one could construct one’s own world. Behind him his stage. And the gallows.
On and on the team carried him away from all he knew, threatening to abandon him in a world far beyond his grasp, a world he wouldn’t understand or be capable of controlling. With him, a woman he had taken into his heart only to displace Christine whose power over him had led to madness and death. Behind him Christine. He fled like a thief in the night, repudiated, tortured, exhibited, and publicly hanged on the gallows in Paris. Meg told him he had escaped death, but he knew better. He lay in the coffin unable to breathe, buried under a mountain of churned earth, insects tumbled through crevices in the wood and crawled across his lips. He had not escaped death. They had hanged and buried him and brought him back, back to exile him from all the fortifications and defenses he had created, from the world of the opera house cellars that had nurtured him and protected him from emptiness. Hades sitting on his throne in the underworld was no more a god than the Phantom had been in his domain, among the multiple worlds played on his stage.
What mercy is this that spits him out on a desert shore like a broken timber from a shipwreck, bereft of home, of all he possessed, of meaning itself? What shelter was there for a ghost dispossessed, whose house had burnt to the ground?

In this novel, Erik and Meg must face a test of their relationship. Do they love each other. Are their paths linked? Or are they together only because circumstances have forced them to be so? To find themselves, they must first risk loss. There must be a choice to be made in order to know that one has chosen freely.

This is the second in the Phoenix of the Opera series. The third novel, The Phantom's Opera, is coming soon.

Cheers, Sadie Montgomery

[phantomgirl110]

Sadie said:

This is the second in the Phoenix of the Opera series. The third novel, The Phantom's Opera, is coming soon.

Ooh, I just came across the cover to The Phantom's Opera on your MySpace and it looks lovely! I love the title too. Any idea when the release date will be?

[Sadie Montgomery]

Phantomgirl110,

I've not dropped by for quite some time. The third novel in the serie, The Phantom's Opera, should be out any time now. It may take several weeks for Amazon and other online stores to pick up the link, but it will be available at the publishers well before that, I think. [Amazon was incredibly quick to pick up the second one, Out of the Darkness.]

I'm waiting for my author copies. Until then, it won't be ready for purchase.

I'm glad you like the cover. It has been great fun to wait to see what the design team will come up with for each of the covers. I've always been pleasantly surprised and delighted. I give suggestions, but they always take the suggestions and then let the creative juices flow.



Cheers, Sadie

P.S. Check out my webpages! ms.sadiemontgomery.googlepages.com/thephantom%27sopera