Through time, a beautiful diamond necklace, created by the famous Faberge, is the link forged between several very different people First there is Lydia Kusminskaya, prima ballerina, in imperial Russia In London, fifty years later Lovat Whitburn, a rising young sculptor, marries Bianca Berrisford, daughter of a leading auctioneer Twenty years later, Lovat and Bianca are divorced, but still angry with each other and Lovat sets out to bring down Bianca by manipulating the sale of Russian art in the Berrisford gallery, the centre being the great Faberge necklace created for the young prima ballerina