This elegant Edwardian romance follows Isobel Donaldson's "Watercolors". When a pianist cousin, called away for an emergency, asks Fiona Glennie to replace him for a chamber music concert in London, the young Canadian woman gets a disagreeable surprise. William McTavish, the shabby young man leading the ensemble, is furious. But Fiona astonishes him with a brilliant performance.
When she accidentally meets him again, she learns that he is an impoverished musician, living hand to mouth, and also a secret composer, afraid to reveal his compositions for fear they lack merit. Before Fiona leaves England to return to her home in Montreal, the two have captured each other’s hearts. Will they see one another again? And will he become what she knows he has the potential to be?