title: Crescendo
author: Lamb, Charlotte
description: One awful moment shattered her life
  
  Basslea was a haven, and Marina was totally content there. She had her music and her innocent childlike fantasies. Nothing seemed capable of changing her world--until Gideon Firth arrived.
  
  He was everything she was not: sophisticated, urbane, powerful. And she found herself responding to his magnetism the way no unawakened girl should ....
  
  He seemed to wield a power she didn't understand, until he forced her to recognize the truth for herself. Then Marina realized what was happening to her--and what had happened!
  
  Hero: Gideon Firth
  Heroine: Marina