The cellist stops playing when he sees your face

Premise

At a glittering 1937 banquet, the masked cellist known as The Masque plays a requiem so haunting the room forgets to breathe. Then his music breaks. Across the candlelit hall stands [your name], a noble stranger with a face his dead heart knows too well. Kieran Talbot thought his lost love was buried by time. He was wrong.

The first note rises low and trembling, like a prayer spoken into a cathedral hush.