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AN ACCLAIMED FIRST NOVEL OF LOVE, LOSS AND REDEMPTION ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK The sweet strains of a jazz saxophone wind beautifully through the rhythmic prose and elegantly crafted melodies of this debut novel from Rosalyn Story. A nine-year-old boy carefully bears a tiny infant through a furious thunderstorm. Sworn to hide the baby's origins, he delivers the nameless child safely to the doorstep of a family blissfully unaware of the drama being played outside their home. Decades later, L.J. Tillman has matured into a brilliant jazz saxophonist playing on the New York streets after the revelation of long-buried secrets has devastated his life and marriage. As the sensuous sounds of his horn fuse with the hard echoes of the streets, L.J. and his wife begin to peel away the twisting falsehoods of their lives in an attempt to rescue their relationship. An extraordinarily powerful first novel from a masterful pen.