War correspondent Paige Munroe still has nightmares about her partner's death in Afghanistan. Her family secures her a seemingly safe assignment: writing and photographing a book about an exciting, new wine region. Against her better judgment, Paige becomes romantically entwined with winemaker and smuggler Nicholas Alder.

Her investigation soon puts her in jeopardy as Simone Cuccerra, the ruthless owner of a multinational company, continues to buy up family-run wineries and to crush anyone who stands in her way.

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Jennifer Fraser has a PhD in Comparative Literature. She is the author of two literary studies: Rite of Passage in the Narratives of Dante and Joyce (2002, University Press of Florida) and Be A Good Soldier: Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels (University of Toronto Press, 2011). Her plays, The Distortion Trilogy, are being handled by the Playwrights' Guild of Canada (see www.distortion-play.com). Jennifer also teaches English and Drama at an International Independent School and lives in Victoria, British Columbia with her husband and two sons.