Do women have time for a mid-life crisis? The recent actions of Abbie's husband in that vein seemed to have propelled her into one of her own, however much she wished that her world hadn't been turned upside down. The sojourn in the south of France was just what she needed. Time to think, time to indulge in the type of pleasures she had never even contemplated before. When Keith took her to meet Catherine and her associates, they were to stay only a week or so. But the perverse dramas enacted during that short stay at the beautiful former model's villa would ensure that Abbie's future would be re-mapped irrevocably ...