It wasn't that the job was difficult!

It was April's employer who baffled her -- Comte Emile Jacquot de Nimes, popular novelist, one-time acclaimed artist, at present a recluse.

His wounded soul broke her heart, and somehow she must show him how to live again--and love again.

Nothing was insurmountable ... except the one thing April most feared: that his love would be for someone else....