SING ME FORGOTTEN

A gender-bent retelling of The Phantom of the Opera - beautiful, lush and highly emotional.

Seventeen-year-old Isda should have been drowned at birth. Her demonic face marks her as one of the condemned few able to manipulate people's memories when they sing. Cyril, the owner of the city's opera house, pulled her from a watery grave and raised her as his own. All he asks in exchange is that she use her powers to keep his patrons happy.

But Isda herself is not so happy. Desperate for a glimpse of the world outside, she finds refuge in the patrons' memories. And then Emeric Rodin arrives. He's the opera house's newest janitor, and both his singing voice and his memories are unlike anything Isda has ever experienced. His memories awaken something in her -- something magic and powerful. And dark. And hungry. In them, she finds secrets about her kind. Secrets that could free her from her gilded prison.

Ravenous for the answers locked in Emeric's past, Isda convinces him to take voice lessons from her. The more she learns about her power, the more she craves the feeling it gives her. As secrets start to unravel, Isda will have to chose between her growing feelings for Emeric and her thirst for revenge. For the first time in her life, she feels unstoppable. She could break free; she could punish those who killed her kind.

The world sees her as a nightmare, so a nightmare she shall be.

Jessica S. Olson claims New Hampshire as her home, but has somehow found herself in Texas, where she spends most of her time singing praises to the inventor of the air conditioner. When she's not hiding from the heat, she's corralling her three crazy but adorable children (and her one crazy but also adorable husband), dreaming up stories about kissing and murder and magic, and eating peanut butter by the spoonful straight from the jar. Sing Me Forgotten is her debut novel.