To fulfill her beloved sister's wish, Iliana Kenzly vows to become the greatest pianist in the Empire. She enrolls in the prestigious Royal Arts Academy, only to have the "Genius of the Century"—a wild problem child from the forest—appear before her. Theodore Bernstein proceeds to turn her daily life upside down. A story of growth as the protagonists navigate the space between love, obsession, misunderstandings, and dreams.