Seventeen-year-old Madeline Richardson's lifelong dream of attending Juilliard is about to come true--or is it? A life-changing discovery threatens to put her classical concert pianist career on hold, and her father's demands have her unsure of her future. A future that includes a lover, whose involvement with her puts him in a precarious position where his chances of playing in the NBA as well as a coveted spot on the U.S. Olympic basketball team--hangs in the balance. "Melody for Madeline," weaves an intimate tale of one girl's thrust into the complexities of adulthood. Madeline no longer sees life with childlike innocence but as a young woman whose decisions have her playing a different tune.