With her life in New York unraveling, Artemisia Talbot receives a commission to photograph Chopin's Paris. There she discovers unconditional love for the first time with a young musicologist,
Matthew Pierce. In Warsaw, Matthew purchases a diary that describes Chopin's ill-fated love affair, but the diary also holds disturbing parallels to contemporary events--in Paris, Warsaw and
Nohant--and obscures the grim reality that Artemisia is being followed by an obsessive killer bent on revenge. Original.