Since she was a child in tiny Harsen's Cove, Michigan, Alicia Harper has devoted her whole life to music. Now all her hard work has finally paid off--she's an acclaimed soloist with the Metropolitan Opera, in New York. If she's had to sacrifice her social life, well, that's okay. No man has ever touched her heart the way music does.

Until Reid Marsh comes along. He's her Aunt Corrine's neighbor back in Harsen's Cove, and from the minute he shows up backstage at one of Alicia's performances, she is drawn to him. But he seems less than taken with her. When a family tragedy brings Alicia back to Harsen's Cove, it seems as if fate keeps throwing her and Reid together. And despite small-town gossip and Reid's mysterious behavior, Alicia can't help feeling she's found the one man who could bring real music to her life....