When a young woman with the gift of sight is faced with murder charges, she makes a devastating decision, destroying any chance for happiness, which forces the hero to rethink his lifes ambition for revenge and celibacy.

Elizabeth Rose believes her greatest fear has come true; the villagers think she is bewitched and the music from her glass armonica can wake the dead. Thrust into a strange household with a man she fears, and tormented by the presence of his dead wife, will her secret past get her tossed penniless onto the streets?

Philip Ablington is celibate. Madness runs in his family and he believes his seed is bad. Long devoted to his wife's memory, when the enchanting Elizabeth disrupts his orderly household he is torn between feelings of betrayal and the new awakening of his desires. Will Philips self loathing destroy them both, or can Elizabeths devotion unlock his heart?