Margot Ross, a beautiful, talented jewelry designer, has come to a French village in Provence to be re-united with her grandfather, Compte de Sarbre, the patriarch of a world-renowned jewelry firm.
But she loses her heart to Rian Gallet, a handsome, magnetic young Frenchman who designed jewelry for her grandfather until a bitter quarrel which Rian refuses to discuss. Then a body is discovered in the ravine next to the chateau - the body of a plain-faced middle-aged woman who had traveled to Provence with Margot. And suddenly events catch up with Margot - she uncovers a clue to the mysterious woman's death that implicates Rian, her beloved...learns a terrible family secret...and begins to sense the inexorable pull of the ravine, stretching its fingers of death toward her!