FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF "THE BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN" For readers who fell in love with A Gentleman in Moscow and Big Little Lies. When child prodigy Grey Fitzgerald sits down at a baby grand piano and plays a Chopin nocturne from memory after hearing it once, his mother Rose knows her son is extraordinary. Doctor Victor Rochefort has very specific plans for his nephew Grey - Blackwood Academy in Switzerland, naturally, the school with the two-year waiting list and the Latin motto no one bothers to translate anymore. Stone walls the color of chalk. A garden walled higher than any garden needs to be. It is the kind of place people pay a great deal of money to send their sons, and call it love. Before Victor's plans can be executed, Rose runs. She takes Grey in the night, weeks of planning behind her and a secret she will carry alone. Ten years later, Grey returns to California carrying his uncle's inheritance and a silence where the music used to be. His childhood friend Chanel doesn't recognize the boy she once sat beside. Grey recognizes everything about her - including the gold necklace at her throat that belongs to someone else entirely. What begins as a story about a gifted boy and the people who would possess him becomes something else: the story of the woman who loved him, built a life alongside his talent and his damage, and eventually had to decide what she was willing to survive. Little Poets is a novel about art and control, about the long reach of the people who shaped us before we knew we were being shaped, and about the particular cost of loving someone who was claimed by someone else long before you found them.