Classical pianist Renata DiMonte has abandoned a career with the symphony to entertain in the elegant Piano Bar and Lounge of the Claremont Arms, one of New York City's premier luxury hotels. Haunted by guilt following her mother's death, Renata finds solace in the music she has always longed to play and bonding with her audience for the first time. However, five-star service is not all the Claremont Arms has to offer. There are rumors of paranormal phenomena-rumors that Renata ignores until she experiences happenings that cannot be explained. Patrons she has never met will request songs, and with warning, their life stories reveal themselves to her, open books of pain and joy. Nothing frightening has happened-yet-but nothing about these events is remotely normal, either. Are Renata's strange experiences simply flukes, products of an overactive imagination? Does the beautiful concert grand piano she plays have supernatural powers? Or is there magic in the music itself?