Flutist Jenna Brophy has it all-a musical career she loves, a husband and two grown children. When the resentments and struggles of a twenty year marriage crescendo into irreconcilable breakdown, can she make the choice to end it? With her emotions in turmoil, she focuses on preparing for a big holiday concert, until her orchestra's conductor is called away on a family emergency. His replacement? Her high-school sweetheart, Brandon Marsh, now a well-respected session musician and the one man Jenna can never forget.Brandon hasn't seen Jenna in years, his career pursuits sending him out of the country and out of her life right after graduation. He's made some mistakes, but none bigger than marrying the wrong woman-twice. Struggling with his own issues, including a chilling medical diagnosis, a familiar face in the orchestra he's been asked to take over strikes a chord in him stronger than he's ever felt before.Winter may be a time of endings, but also of beginnings. Can Jenna and Brandon compose their own new song, take the repeat and play the final Coda together? Jean Maxwell was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at the tail-end of the baby boomer era, which she says makes her a "late-boomer". It's a lot like her writing, which she didn't start until many decades later. But Jean was always an artist at heart, having practically come out of the womb with pencil in hand and blessed with (as the fictional John Hammond put it) a 'deplorable excess' of creativity. A graphic designer as well as a musician, the muses clearly have had their way with her and aren't done yet. To date, she has 5 published novels to her credit and more than a dozen ghostwritten works. To keep a pulse on the public's literary tastes, she also reviews books for a popular romance review website. She still resides in her home town and enjoys things 'the Canadian way', which means having the outdoors as a best friend, apologizing for no real reason, bemoaning an overtaxed and over-governed society but remaining blissfully unconcerned about politics, religion or gender issues. We think it's the :) A collection of lyrical, inspiring and sometimes bittersweet love stories of talented and passionate artists whose devotion to their craft is matched only by their love for each other

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