Flower of Silence

THE MANY FACETS OF DEATH

Margot Ross, a beautiful, talented jewelry designer, has come to a French village in Provence to be re-united with her grandfather, Compte de Sarbre, the patriarch of a world-renowned jewelry firm.

But she loses her heart to Rian Gallet, a handsome, magnetic young Frenchman who designed jewelry for her grandfather until a bitter quarrel which Rian refuses to discuss. Then a body is discovered in the ravine next to the chateau - the body of a plain-faced middle-aged woman who had traveled to Provence with Margot. And suddenly events catch up with Margot - she uncovers a clue to the mysterious woman's death that implicates Rian, her beloved...learns a terrible family secret...and begins to sense the inexorable pull of the ravine, stretching its fingers of death toward her!

Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award (1971) by the Romantic Novelists' Association.