Surrendering
by Nina Rosewood
Love beyond time. Music beyond memory.
Rozemarijn Vandevelde is a gifted pianist living in 2021 when she makes a choice that changes everything: she leaves her own time behind and wakes up in 1901 on the sunlit shores of the Cote d'Azur. There, she becomes Marie-Rose Duchamps, a young woman with no memory of her former life.
She meets Claude Ferrier, a composer stifled by convention and haunted by longing. Their love is immediate, transformative—and fleeting. A storm separates them, sending her back to her own century. In 1901, her body is never found.
But love leaves traces. Claude dreams of her. Composes for her. And Rozemarijn, once returned, is no longer who she was. Her music deepens. Her life rushes forward. And still, she wonders:
Did she find him? Or did he find her?
Is their love the cause—or the consequence—of the music she's always known?
Years later, on the other side of the world, she stands before an orchestra in Sydney. The music is his. The waves are still playing.
A novel about the mysteries of love, the memory of music, and the paradoxes of time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nina Rosewood writes layered, witty, and emotionally resonant fiction. With playful ease, she weaves time paradoxes into her stories—a hallmark of our age. Her characters often come into deeper contact with themselves, and their present lives gain new meaning, even as they face longing, loss, and farewell.
