After losing her job in England, Amy Carter uses her redundancy payment to start a new life in France, turning Bellefontaine, an overgrown Provenal farmhouse, into a successful hotel. Though she has big plans for her new home, none of them involves falling in love least of all with Fabien Coste, the handsome but arrogant owner of the nearby chteau. As romance blossoms in the beautiful Provenal countryside, disturbing events at the farmhouse hint at a dark mystery a destructive, centuries-old attachment between the ladies of Bellefontaine and the ducs de Coste. As Amy struggles to unravel the mystery, she begins to wonder if it may not just be her heart at risk, but her life too.