This book is one that I do re-read quite a bit, just because it's pretty fluffy but does include some great motifs like blended families and having to let go of people who don't treat us well.
Sophia is the granddaughter of a famous winemaker. Her grandmother is a grand dame known to all as
La Signora. About twenty years ago,
La Signora married a rival winemaker. With him, came his grandson who has also carried on the MacMillan family business, working in the fields. Tyler has little need for the business side of winemaking while Sophia, an advertising exec, spends as little time in the field as possible. But they are thrown together when her grandmother and his grandfather decide that they are going to ensure that their legacy is secure by shaking up the company and making both Sophia and Ty work in each others fields. This affects more than just the two of them as Sophia's father, a man who has been cheating on her mother steadily since marriage and has never really loved Sophia, is being audited, her mother, who is a timid woman, is forced to the forefront and they're bringing in a new Chief Operating Officer who is going to oversee them all. But that's not the quintessential spanner in the works... no. That actually comes when Sophias feckless father is found dead in her apartment and someone starts poisoning the family's wines.
Wonderful subplot with Sophia's mother and the new COO. Very sweet and incredibly touching (especially since on my most recent re-read I am closer to the mother's age than Sophia's...)
Five stars
This book came out March 26th, 2002
Hard copy of mine
Opinions are my own
