This mystery is set on a dystopian Cape Cod of the near future and asks whether love can thrive or even survive in such a world. Kathryn Humphrys, called by her homeless, psychotic brother, meets Charlie Stuck, an National Preservation Agency, on a flight from Minneapolis. Together they chase after the same secret.

Ian Kearney, the director of the Kearney Music School, an elite musical training school in Philadelphia, dies after a fall from a balcony during a recital. World-famous cellist, Henry Harrier, recently forced from the faculty, returns to investigate Ian's death when his prized former student is arrested. Henry shows through his brilliant and single-minded pursuit of the truth that, as usual, they have it all wrong. This Sherlock Holmes-type mystery leads the reader through the world of classical music and lays bare the conflicts which dominate the lives of talented adolescents when placed...