Nineteen-year-old Juliet Emerline, deaf since the age of nine, stumbles upon an unusual flower next to a grave while attending her mother’s funeral. Intrigued by the blossom’s beauty, she digs it up and carries it home. While she’s planting the flower, a man’s voice—in a sensuous baritone—sings to her.  Each time Juliet touches the petals, the mysterious man appears before her in ghostly form, though has no memory of his identity or death.  By plucking off a petal and sealing it within a locket, Juliet finds that she and Hawk—a name taken from the inscription on his tombstone—can interact mentally as long as she wears the necklace.  Though they can’t touch physically, they develop a deep emotional bond, as Hawk is the only entity Juliet can communicate with through her thoughts and hear his voice in return, and she is his only connection to the living world.

 

To investigate her ghost's past life and the mystery shrouding his death, Juliet travels to another town and meets his estranged brother—the viscount Lord Nicolas Thornton. The resemblance between the viscount and Hawk shocks her.   She begins to suspect that Nicolas, Hawk's twin, knows more about his brother's death than he’s letting on.  Juliet doesn’t know who to trust: the man of flesh and bones that can relate to her through romantic gestures, heartfelt notes, and sensual touches … or the specter that serenades her with beautiful songs and ardent words, touching her mind and soul like no other man ever can.  As she wrestles the quandaries of her heart, she’s lured into the Thornton’s web of family secrets and uncovers dark revelations destined to alter her silent world forever.