Lily swears she’ll never end up in another abusive home, but when Ryle starts to show all the same warning signs that her mother ignored, Lily learns just how hard it is to say goodbye. The provocative opening takes a dark turn when Lily receives a warning about Ryle’s intentions from his sister, who becomes Lily’s employee and close friend. They meet on a rooftop in Boston on the night Ryle loses a patient and Lily attends her abusive father’s funeral. Hoover’s ( November 9, 2015, etc.) latest tackles the difficult subject of domestic violence with romantic tenderness and emotional heft.Īt first glance, the couple is edgy but cute: Lily Bloom runs a flower shop for people who hate flowers Ryle Kincaid is a surgeon who says he never wants to get married or have kids. As ever, the author's trademark effortless style keeps a complex plot moving without a hitch. A tragic mishap caused by poisonous plants growing near the vines? Or deliberate product tampering intended to destroy the company? Sophia and Tyler will need to delve even deeper into the convoluted and sometimes unsavory history of the family and its three-generation business.Ī smooth blend of suspense and romance.

Then a bottle of tainted merlot kills a company exec. Everyone has a motive, and nothing is what it seems, Sophia discovers, but Tyler stands by her. He might have been killed by the mob, or a jealous mistress, or his spoiled brother-in-law, Tereza's lazy son, who's produced a passel of brats with his foolish Italian wife in the hopes of making Tereza happy. Long divorced from long-suffering Pilar Giambelli, Tony led an opulent, self-indulgent life that provides plenty of murder suspects. But other family members hope to claim their share of the Giambelli fortune, and people start dying mysteriously, including Sophia's good-for-nothing father, Tony Avano. The two young people begin to work together Tyler teaches Sophia the fine art of making wine and making love. Ruggedly handsome, intelligent and earthy, he's a perfect match for public-relations whiz Sophia-or so thinks Tereza. Eli's grandson Tyler knows everything there is to know about producing wine, from the vineyard to the vat. The matriarch has recently married Eli MacMillan, the American founder of another famous wine company. It's just as well the lovely young woman is still single: Tereza has plans for her. Megaselling Roberts ( River's End, 1999, etc.) goes to Napa Valley for the tale of an Italian-American family wine producers rocked by scandal and a series of murders.ĭynasty head Tereza Giambelli knows that her granddaughter Sophia is the only family member capable of running a multimillion-dollar wine business-and no one contradicts La Signora.

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