<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Daughter of parents obsessively in love with one another Grace Owen has seen how love destroyed her widowed father and resolves to avoid it at all costs; besides she has her music and her dreams of becoming an opera singer to inspire her.&nbsp;It is only when she meets Maximilian Hawkesbury that she learns that hurting someone you care for is far more painful than love itself.</span></p>