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    A Light Across the Lake
    A Light Across the Lake
    A Light Across the Lake
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    A Light Across the Lake

    By Sharon E. Cathcart

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    Return to Paris' glamorous Opera Garnier, and the world of the award-winning "Seen Through the Phantom's Eyes" series! "A Light Across the Lake" is the tale of apprentice set builder Lucien Dubois, who is determined to see what lies in the fifth cellar. Will his exploration raise the ire of the infamous Opera Ghost?

    This edition of "Pocketful of Stories" contains a sample chapter from "In The Eye of The Beholder," the Phantom tale that started it all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSharon E. Cathcart
    Release dateDec 21, 2018
    ISBN9780463880821
    A Light Across the Lake
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    Sharon E. Cathcart

    Award-winning author Sharon E. Cathcart (she/her) writes historical fiction with a twist!A former journalist and newspaper editor, Sharon has written for as long as she can remember and generally has at least one work in progress.Sharon lives with her husband and several rescue cats in the Silicon Valley, California.

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      A Light Across the Lake - Sharon E. Cathcart

      A Light Across the Lake

      Pocketful of Stories No. 3

      By Sharon E. Cathcart

      Copyright Sharon E. Cathcart, 2018

      Originally published in Twelve Hours Later, Treehouse Writers 2015 and Thinking Ink Press 2017

      Cover design by Sharon E. Cathcart

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      All rights reserved

      This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means without prior written permission of the authors, except as provided by United States of America copyright law.

      The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author.

      With the exception of historical persons and events cited in the text, this is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons is entirely coincidental.

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      Lucien Dubois was always glad when the ormolu clock set in the fireplace at his end of the Opera Garnier’s Grand Foyer rang the two o’clock hour. It meant that the patrons and their parties were long gone and that he could remove his wig and livery. His work was far from over, though. There was the floor to sweep and the ashes to be cleared away so that a fresh fire could be laid before the

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