Concertos in D Major, A Novel

In this Christian romance, lovely Kyleigh, composer and superb violinist, shuts down and retreats from grief when her brilliant husband, Maestro Christophe Levésque, develops Alzheimer’s and no longer recognizes her. Alone with Beanbag, her fluffy Old English sheepdog, Kyleigh fashions her music and stares out to sea, watching the passionate pounding of the surf and believing her life is over.Amid the wild grandeur of Oregon’s north coast, she meets Sanders Bardrick, southern poet and professor of medieval studies, a deeply intuitive man who understands about opening the vulnerable heart and letting grief’s cleansing tears wash through and restore. The intense emotional bond they form rumbles with a power the whole village of Cannon Beach feels. Kyleigh’s challenge then broadens to include both spiritual and ethical dimensions; her high principles and faith lead her to find the idea of divorce both spiritually and ethically unthinkable—even though her husband has not recognized her for several years. Hers is a poignant, inspirational struggle of love beyond grief and of moral values in a world of selfishness, laxity, and compromise.