Erik is alone in the world, living in the darkness beneath the opera house, hiding his shameful existence from human eyes. He longs to reach out to an angel, but fears she would see him as nothing more than a monster. Yet when a surprise visitor lands on the shores of his underground lake, he is forced to rethink everything he has ever believed to be true. In the end, will either of their lives ever be the same again-and would they want them to be? The Secret Door is the first endeavor of novelist J.M. Smith. It leads the reader through a mysterious, often funny, journey through space and time, and illustrates the transformative power of love