Ann Mah, a food and travel writer, brings her love of food and knowledge of wine-making to bear in her second novel, a blend of mystery, romance, and post-WWII French history. Kate is studying for her third and final attempt at passing the famously difficult master-of-wine exam. She travels to Burgundy for a few weeks of study at the vineyard that has been in her family for generations, but which she has long avoided. There she and her cousin's wife...

"Set in the lush backdrop of Sonoma's wine country, "Eight Hundred Grapes" is a...novel about love, marriage, family, wine, and the treacherous terrain in which they all intersect"--

"When Jamison Vaughn --Virginia real estate mogul, vineyard owner, and failed US presidential candidate --drives his gold SUV into a stone pillar at the entrance to Montgomery Estate Vineyard, Lucie Montgomery is certain the crash was deliberate. But everyone else in town is equally sure that Jamie must have lost control of the SUV on a rain-slicked country road. In spite of being saddled with massive campaign debts from the election, Jamie is seemingly...

Brooding and sexy Rafe Di Luca has returned to his family's luxurious vineyard resort for one reason: to find out who attacked his beloved grandmother. His homecoming stirs up a decades-old feud, forcing him to work with Brooke Petersson, the woman he once seduced and betrayed ... but never forgot.

It should have been the perfect getaway. Five girlfriends. A remote winery on the Oregon coast. An infinite supply of delicious wine at their manicured fingertips. But then their center-beautiful, magnetic Vanessa Morales-vanished, never to be seen again. Emily Fischer was perhaps the last person to see her alive. But now, years later, Emily has caught a glimpse of her again at her local café.

Confusion, violence, and terror are sweeping over the Lands Vin and four people are at the center of the storm.

Looks at how and where wine is made and how this affects its quality and pricing, including information on how the professionals taste and rate wine and a country-by-country tour of the latest vintages.

When Lucie Montgomery finds the body of prominent wine merchant Paul Noble hanging from a beam in his art studio near her Virginia vineyard, she is unwittingly dragged into Noble's murky past. Once a member of the secret "Mandrake Society, " Noble might have aided in a cover-up of the deaths of a disabled man and a beautiful young biochemist involved in classified government research forty years ago. A seemingly innocent favor for an old friend of...

To access her trust fund, Natalie Vos must get married, and with no prospects, proposes to a man she wants to kill and kiss in equal measure, failing vineyard owner August Cates, but their sham wedding turns into something more due to their unfortunate, unbearable, undeniable attraction.