About the Book
A disturbingly gifted child, horribly disfigured from birth, flees into a cruel world where he will learn to survive at any cost. Torn between good and evil, driven to seek power as a substitute for the love he fears he can never know, Erik begins a dark journey that will take him across the face of Europe, from a gypsy cage to the treacherous court of Persia, and ultimately to the cellars of the Paris Opera House, where he must finally learn the true meaning of love.