The story of a 25-year-long love affair between the internationally celebrated pianist, composer, and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) and the central-California town of Paso Robles. Thoroughly researched and illustrated, the book is the first complete chronicle of Paderewski's intimate relationship with Paso Robles from his first visit there in 1914 to hisx death in June 1941.