Movie stars and paparazzi flock to Cannes for the glamorous film festival, but Grace Kelly, wants only to escape from the flash-bulbs. When struggling perfumer Sophie Duval shelters Miss Kelly in her boutique to fend off a persistent British press photographer, James Henderson, a bond is forged between the two women and sets in motion a chain of events that stretches across thirty years of friendship, love, and tragedy. Page-turning novel of passion, fate and second chances.