Haunted by a past she cant escape Laura Cunningham desires nothing more than to keep her world small & precise
- her quiet relationship & growing jewellery business are all she needs to get by. Until the December day when Rob Blake walks into her studio & commissions a necklace that will tell his enigmatic wife Cats life in charms. As Laura interviews Cats family friends & former lovers she steps out of her world & into theirs -- a charmed world where weekends are spent in Verbier & the air is lavender-scented where friends are wild extravagant & jealous & a big love has to compete with grand passions. Hearts are opened secrets revealed & as the necklace begins to fill up with trinkets Cats intoxicating life envelops Lauras own. By the time she has to identify the final charm Lauras metamorphosis is almost complete. But the last story left to tell has the power to change all of their lives forever & Laura is forced to choose between who she really is & who it is she wants to be.