Gaye Chapel and Anton D'Amore share a love consuming, beautiful and fleeting as the seasons passing. But, Gaye's wealthy Newport family forbids their relationship, and consigns her to a loveless marriage. Even after Anton rises from penniless immigrant to silent screen star the lovers are forced to keep their affair secret. When Anton is brutally attacked, he makes a deathbed vow to one day return to Gaye.Ninety-one years later, Abby McIntyre stands on the east loggia of the Newport mansion Chapelfaire. Her arms rest on the limestone balustrade, the ocean breeze cool against her skin. A high pier of stone, that stretches out to the sea, beckons. Abby has come to Chapelfaire to escape her troubles, and bolster the spirits of her ailing grandmother. But, as the two women walk through the doors of the magnificent gilded age mansion, it becomes clear they have awakened a century's old mystery.Compelled to return to Newport again and again, Abby wonders if she is drawn to Chapelfaire by the need to uncover its secrets, or because of the intense attraction she feels for handsome and brooding Win Chapel, a man possessed by spirits of the past.Brought together by fate and held captive by passion, only Win and Abby can reverse Chapelfaire's legacy of heartbreak and reunite its lost lovers. Only they can call upon love to do the impossible - transcend time.
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