The Loire Valley, 1895. When seventeen-year-old Sara Thibault's father is killed in a mudslide, her mother sells their vineyard to a rival family whose eldest son marries Sara's sister, Lydia. But a violent tragedy compels Sara and her sister to flee to New York, forcing Sara to put aside her dream of following in her father's footsteps as a master winemaker. Meanwhile, Philippe Lemieux has arrived in California with the ambition of owning the largest vineyard in Napa by 1900. When he receives word of his brother's death in France, he resolves to bring the killer to justice.
Sara has traveled to California in hopes of making her own way in the winemaking world. When she encounters Philippe in a Napa vineyard, they are instantly drawn to one another, but Sara knows he is the one man who could return her family's vineyard to her—or send her straight to the guillotine.
A riveting tale of betrayal, retribution, love, and redemption, Kristen Harnisch's debut novel immerses readers in the rich vineyard culture of both the Old and New Worlds, the burgeoning cities of late nineteenth-century America, and a spirited heroine's fight to determine her destiny.
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“A lovely novel with sparkling dialogue,
intricate plot, and great characters. This tale of a young girl determined to
hold onto to her beloved father’s vineyard in the Loire Valley will invoke
inevitable comparisons to Gone with the
Wind. Sara is a girl with grit and determination and seizes what she wants
from life with both hands, evolving over the course of the novel from an
impetuous, headstrong girl to a mature woman. A pleasure.”
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Roberta Rich, internationally bestselling author