Season of the Swan Book

Kate Saarinan is a brilliant violinist who is haunted by the secrets of her youth: secrets of seduction and desire born in a small town. Now she is poised for international stardom, ready to sign a multimillion-dollar contract with a record company that plans to market her dark, lovely stage presence as the Black Swan. But Kate's entire world is about the change. She agrees to spend a week teaching at a country school, far away from the glamour of her life in Manhattan. Kate cannot understand why she feels driven to visit a town that is so similiar to the one from which she fled fourteen years earlier, when her musical career offered a means of escape. In the wilds of Langley, Washington, Kate meets Brian Corry, a wise, rugged craftsman whose love forces her to confront the childhood ghosts threatening to destroy her hopes for success and happiness. From the stage lights of Carnegie Hall to the quiet landscape of a farming community, Kate embarks on a journey of flight, memory, and reunion in which the Black Swan must heal the scars of her past in order to realize the amazing possibilities in her future.