Six words on a postcard send pianist Sara Gordon to the southern Spanish city of Málaga. Her friend Oliver needs help and she cannot refuse him. But once there, she doesn't know where to find him. Approached by strangers who claim Oliver sent them, Sara flees right into the path of the province's chief of police, Colonel Gil Loudoun, a.k.a. the Count of Sayamayor.

Gil knows Oliver Jamieson not as a musician, but as the man who builds bombs, consorts with criminals and terrorists — a man wanted in four countries.

For Gil, what began as a crime against Sara turns into a personal struggle to resist her spell. To give in is a mistake. He's a policeman, a hunter of barbarians — and a libertine always in lust but never in love. Yet this softly beautiful woman who lives in the world of her music has gotten under his skin. He stumbles, he falls and then discovers he cannot live without her gentle soul and the magic of a Spanish Sonata.

Readers will remember meeting Gil in Heart on Hold and will enjoy reading his story.