The Norwegian composer Grieg is one of the focuses of this novel. As in the first of this series, Pa Salt's family emerges. His second to oldest daughter follows his footsteps as a devoted sailor. Participating in sailing races around the world, Ally D'Apliese, loses the love of her life in a tragic sailing accident during a terrible storm. The grief she feels for both Pa's death and that of her beloved threaten to overwhelm her. It's time she decides to discover where she was born and the circumstances of her past as Pa intended when he died leaving clues to follow.

Ally finds she is somehow linked to a singer named Anna Landvik. Anna lived more than 100 years earlier and sang the music Grieg wrote for the first performance of Ibsen's play 'Peer Gynt'. Delving deeper, Ally cannot understand how Anna and her husband, Jens Halvorsen, a Norwegian composer and protegee of Grieg, could be connected to her? As research continues, she meets the last living Halvorsen in Norway, experiencing time and again that she somehow knows or has met him. A talented flute player, she begins to play again finding solace in her music because she cannot bear to sail.

It's a well written story with many nuances that leave the reader with questions that may be answered in following novels. The author gives one many details and ideas about how the story will unfold but the ending is not what I expected.

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