Graduate conducting student Kate Brenner has been on her own for a very long time. Daughter of the most detested senator in America, the press won't leave her alone and her classmates won't give her the time of day. It's hard and it's lonely but she just has to hang on until spring when she graduates. If she graduates. Because there's one professor who seems hell-bent on seeing Kate fail. But no way she's giving him the opportunity to take her down-even if it means driving in a to deliver a crucial assignment directly to his doorstep.

Drew Markham is stunned and perplexed when he he finds one of his students stuck in the snow outside his house during the big storm. Even more concerning is which student it is. He knows he hasn't treated Kate fairly, but he just can't seem to stop himself. Every time she sees her in his classroom he's reminded of another woman-another beautiful brunette with deep blue eyes. Because Kate Brenner is a dead ringer for the woman who left him a broken, angry shell of the man he used to be.

Now, trapped together for the foreseeable future, Drew has to set aside his painful memories of the past while Kate has to relinquish some of her fierce independence. The truth that they uncover in the process will turn their lives-and their relationship upside down. As the snow piles higher and their hearts beat faster, Kate and Drew grapple with a love that could cost them everything they've worked so hard for.

Torn between desire and duty, loss and loyalty, the notes they play may change the course of their lives forever.