Description
As Registrar for the Parkland Chorale, 69 year-old Margaret Collins is at the sign-up table when two suspicious-looking men put their names down to sing the fourth movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Little does she know that they will challenge her views, turn her world upside down, and one will steal her heart.Margaret has raised two children mostly on her own, worked hard, and scrimped for every penny. A long-time soprano in the choir, she has held executive positions for that organization for years. But the Ninth requires sopranos to hit seventy-five high As, and Margaret is already feeling the strain, not only of her choir obligations and family issues, but of the loneliness in her heart.Ward Banfield (63) only agreed to sign up to sing in the Parkland Chorale because his favorite client, Homer, seemed determined be a part of the great Beethoven’s masterpiece. Ward is immediately attracted to Margaret, and decides that performing with her choir could be interesting. Homer suffers from mental illness and is homeless, which causes no end of problems for Ward, and eventually for Margaret. A Social Worker, Ward is heir to a massive fortune, and spent his youth as a spoiled rich kid, who has turned his energies to helping the needy.Against the backdrop of beautiful classical music, the trials and joys of family life and friendship, aging, and the possibility of romance, Margaret struggles to come to grips with the challenges and changes before her. Can she and Ward must overcome their differences, focus on each other’s strengths, and allow their love to flourish amidst the low and high notes of life?
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