Have you ever read a story that when the last sentence is finished…you feel incomplete? Maybe you ask yourself…have I missed something? Could this really be the ending meant for the characters I have grown to care about so deeply? Well, that is what happened to me at the end of The Phantom of the Opera. I have loved writing since my  first grade leprechaun story ( 9 pages when only 1 was required)   …and over the years I have started, but never finished, several books…yet this time it was as if an unseen ghost guided and urged me to the completion of, The Phantom Returns. My Angel of Muse if you will. 
               I am a 34-year-old native of sunny Cape Cod, MA but now relocated to sunny Florida to be closer with my family. I have a soft spot for animals, the happily-ever-after, and pasta—and I am an absolute push over for the big blue eyes of my son. I believe no matter what age you are, if you have a dream, and it is waiting there inside of you--follow it! 
            Now, I hear a rose garden is a divine place to read The Phantom Returns.   Also a big comfy chair next to a crackling fire creates a great setting, or a bathtub full of bubbles and complimented with candlelight has also been heavily recommended…but wherever you find yourself reading The Phantom Returns, I truly hope you love reading my story as much I as loved writing it.     
   ~ Stefanie Cole


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