She finds out after the fact that Ridge already has a long-distance girlfriend, Maggie-and that he's deaf. The two begin a songwriting partnership that grows into something more once Sydney dumps Hunter and decides to crash with Ridge and his two roommates while she gets back on her feet. While music student Sydney is watching her neighbor Ridge play guitar on his balcony across the courtyard, Ridge is watching Sydney’s boyfriend, Hunter, secretly make out with her best friend on her balcony. Hoover is a master at writing scenes from dual perspectives. Sydney and Ridge make beautiful music together in a love triangle written by Hoover ( Losing Hope, 2013, etc.), with a link to a digital soundtrack by American Idol contestant Griffin Peterson. Lush descriptions of time and place enhance a compelling love story. Kate may fare better-while in Corsica, she and Stafford's grandson Oliver begin to fall in love. When star-crossed lovers are kept apart by one member's lack of commitment, it's hard to mourn their missed romance, making for a plot occasionally at odds with the tone.
Though the two occasionally connect-in Paris, in Corsica-Tom and Alice can never build a relationship. This is the story the nostalgic Stafford tells Kate, but an intervening narrative, told from Alice's perspective, has the whole truth.
When she travels to Venice with her cosmopolitan aunt and returns pregnant, she's hidden away by her family and later moves on her own to Paris. They fall in love: Alice encourages Tom's art, introducing him to useful people, and Tom sees the authentic Alice-not the shallow socialite but the bold little girl who was going to conquer the world. Thomas Stafford and Alice Eversley met one perfect summer when they were 6 and then again in their 20s Tom was a student at Oxford and Alice, an aristocrat, one of the Bright Young Things. When she contacts the reclusive Stafford about the drawing, he invites her to his home in Corsica, where she's treated to the unwinding of an epic story of love and loss. When Evie dies days later, Kate is unmoored-her career as a photographer is stalled, and she's alone in their old London Victorian. Not long after, June's adoptive mother, Evie, shows Kate something she had kept secret for 30 years-a letter from June's birth mother and her portrait by renowned artist Thomas Stafford. When Kate Darling's mother, June, dies in an airplane accident, the whole world mourns the loss of the former prima ballerina. London in the Roaring '20s, Paris during the German occupation, and a clifftop villa in 1980s Corsica serve as backdrops for a tragic love affair.
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