Uncertain about the paternity of her expected child, Beatrice has decided to live in an apartment in Paris with visits to a Normandy beach house. Her brother Richard left her these properties, with a large art collection, on his accidental death. Her life is full of intriguing characters such as Boris, who brilliantly copies the style of well-known French Impressionist and other more classical painters. The mystery remains of who murdered her brother's fiancee, Nicole Berg, owner of an art gallery, and why did the painter, Levy, commit suicide and who tried to kill Colonel Guerin in the beach house? Guerin, a high ranking French police investigator, has fallen in love with Beatrice and obviously wants to expel Serge, a handsome and amusing Russian writer, from Beatrice's life. Guerin's son Fred, who is a cyber-genius, is a great help to Bea as he is able to protect her father's financial empire from being taken over by the family company of his new, fifth, beautiful young wife from India. As the time approaches for the birth of her baby, Beatrice has some difficult decisions to make about the men in her life.