Dark Paradise — Berrie Davis

They had barely been married a month when Alex Bellmont announced that he was leaving, quitting his Oxford law studies, going home to sort out his thoughts. All he needed was a little time.

But when Leona followed him to his family's opulent chateau in the south of France, Alex was nowhere to be found. Did Sabine, Alex's beautiful actress mother, really know nothing about his whereabouts? Was the handsome, powerful Valentine a friend -- or a deadly foe?

Suddenly words overheard on Leona's first visit took on a new meaning. The chateau was shrouded in a dark veil of secrets, that the

Hero: Alex Bellmont
Heroine: Leona Bellmont