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  • Published: 1 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9780451474193
  • Imprint: Nal
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $45.00

Once Upon a Wine




Cammie Breyer needs a big glass of cabernet—her restaurant failed and her chef boyfriend left for a hotter kitchen. Just when she thinks she’s hit rock bottom, her Aunt Ginger calls with a surprise.

Cammie Breyer needs a big glass of cabernet—her restaurant failed and her chef boyfriend left for a hotter kitchen. Just when she thinks she’s hit rock bottom, her Aunt Ginger calls with a surprise. She’s bought a vineyard—in Delaware. At Ginger’s command, Cammie returns to Black Dog Bay, the seaside town where she spent her childhood summers with her aunt and her cousin, Kat.

The three women reunite, determined to succeed. There’s only one little problem: None of them knows the first thing about wine making. And it turns out, owning a vineyard isn’t all wine and roses. It’s dirt, sweat, and desperation. Every day brings financial pitfalls, unruly tourists, romantic dilemmas, and second thoughts. But even as they struggle, they cultivate hidden talents and new passions. While the grapes ripen under the summer sun, Cammie discovers that love, like wine, is layered, complex, delicious, and worth waiting for . . .

  • Published: 1 August 2016
  • ISBN: 9780451474193
  • Imprint: Nal
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $45.00

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Praise for Once Upon a Wine

[Kendrick] shines in portraying the subtleties of female friendships

Publishers Weekly

Flawlessly written

Chicago Tribune

Will make readers laugh out loud from page one and sigh from the heart at the end

Roxanne St. Claire, New York Times bestselling author of the Barefoot Bay Series

Tender, touching, and very funny story

Ellen Meister, author of Dorothy Parker Drank Here

The leader of the pack when it comes to fashioning cheekily clever love stories

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