Marla Samson, a sixteen-year old ballet student, wins a scholarship for summer master classes at the Blamont Castle in France, where she immediately runs into a frightening entanglement of intrigue and controversy. Last year's dancers are puzzled by her resemblance to Cynthia, a student of the previous year, who was killed when a car she and her dancing partner, Yori, were traveling in plunged over a cliff at Devil's Curve. Some believe they were forced off the road. While lost in the castle, Marla ends up in Cynthia's room and is strangely drawn to her, as if she is being united with a lost...

A young princess would rather be suited by her father's stable boy than a succession of foreign princes.