At the start of another sultry summer in the south of France, Taylor is excited to learn that her new neighbour is the daughter of film star parents. It's the perfect opportunity to put her journalistic skills to use and write a clandestine exposé about Imogen's celebrity family – as well as get the inside story about her husband's recent death.

But Taylor hadn't bargained for the enigmatic yet oddly compelling young woman that she befriends, and she certainly didn't imagine that the exposé she plans to write would be quite so explosive – nor that it would conjure up so many ghosts from her own past.

As the blistering Provençal summer unfolds, Taylor begins to realise that perhaps she isn't as tough as she likes to think she is, and that real resilience – like love – is often powerful enough to conquer even the most monstrous demons.