House of Joy

Eleven years after freezing onstage in Vienna, pianist Jaime Madrigal accepts one last engagement: a private recital at a billionaire's mountain estate above Cebu. He plays four bars before armed separatists cut the power and seal the gates. Trapped with thirty other hostages and seventeen desperate fighters, Jaime discovers that a restored 1927 Bösendorfer can hold a room together where negotiators cannot—and that music may be the only language left before the soldiers come.