Ava has always known a life of love and beauty; her father was a governing minister, they lived in a pristine palace, she was engaged to a prince. Her life was expected to be perfect. However, she soon hears the music that old wives warned about, and enters a world of magic and meets a whimsically eerie woman who ultimately tears Ava's life of beauty apart. Book One in a series of white blond nymphs, the magic in music and the choice we make between love and beauty.