A powerful debut novel in the bestselling tradition of Anita Shreve When Oscar Kornblatt, lead violinist with the New York City Ballet, falls in love with Ginny Valentine, a young dancer in the corps de ballet, he sets in motion a devastating train of events. For while he expects his affair with Ginny - young, vivacious and ambitious - to be brief, he does not expect her to fall in love with his son. Gabriel, like his father, is transfixed by Ginny. And, his marriage to the beautiful but highly unstable Penelope already crumbling, he begins a passionate long-distance affair with his father's ex-lover. But as Oscar and his wife Ruth fail in their struggles to separate their eldest son from the dancer who has bewitched him, disaster starts to seem inevitable...