Florence has built her life around her music and around a marriage that has just proven itself hollow. Finding out about the infidelity is one kind of damage. Knowing who to call is another problem—most of the people in her world came with her husband. The person she reaches for is Sebastian, her late father's trusted companion, someone who has stayed quietly present in her life without ever explaining exactly why.
What she needs from him at the start is practical: protection, guidance, a steady presence while she figures out how to hold onto her career and her future. What develops between them is older than the crisis that brought her to his door and more complicated than either of them is ready to name. The marriage that damaged her is one obstacle. The gap in age and history between them is another. The music she's fighting to reclaim connects to both.
