A dark and thrilling re-imagining of Frankenstein and The Phantom of the Opera, MOON DARK is an adult romfantasy set in the manor and opera houses of late 1800s France. 


1865 Fredericksburg, England: When Ian is born his father enlists Victor, a renowned, eccentric physician friend, to perform a series of depraved surgeries to correct his son’s facial and limb deformity. But when people end up as corpses in alleys and body parts pile up in their lab, Ian becomes the victim of two men playing God.
Ian survives the forced experiments but his disfigurement and legacy from his father marks him as an unnatural demon among men. Outcasted and feared though his intelligence far outstrips his generation, Ian escapes his father and Victor when they decide he’s too dangerous to be left alive. But Ian finds himself lost in a civilization that will not accept him - until a Marquis takes an interest in him. Ian learns that love comes in all forms but that above all, power is survival. But power does not get Ian closer to existing in society or finding peace.
It’s at the Marquis’ estate that Ian meets Gisele, a seamstress employed by an opera company, who shows him what unconditional love is. She can see past his deformity to the creative, intensely lonely soul inside. When Ian learns Victor is using his father to hunt him, Gisele’s life is in danger. Victor will use Gisele as a bargaining piece and Ian is the only one who can protect her. He has lived as both man and monster and now is confronted with his prodigious creator. He will be forced to decide if he will give up his life for revenge or choose to save the woman who has given him everything.