Toni Peters rarely takes chances or tries new things, always sticking close to home and going along with the tried and the true—until her old schoolfriend, Jane Doyle, working at a hotel in Paris, France, calls and suggests they take a month-long tour of Europe, the vacation of shopping, sightseeing, and sunbathing they've always talked about but never got around to taking.

When Toni arrives in Paris, however, she discovers Jane has quit her job and moved south to another hotel in Marseille. Toni goes to Marseille and checks all the hotels, but to no avail. Jane seems to have mysteriously disappeared off the planet—that is, until Toni receives an unsigned note telling her to be at Les Arbres in Cassis at noon the next day.

Figuring the note is from Jane, Toni hops the bus to Cassis, but instead of finding her friend at Les Arbres, she finds ultra-sexy British cop Neil Trenton...and ends up getting kidnapped...