Review: Can't wait to read more by Carlino!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2014
AMAZING! 5 stars!I absolutely loved this book.  This is the first book I have read by Renee Carlino and I will be reading more soon.  The writing was beautiful.  The scenes were described with so much detail that I could vividly see every scene playing out in my mind.Kate is a journalist that is going through a difficult time in life and work and seems to have lost her spark according to friends and her boss.  She is given the opportunity to interview the elusive RJ Lawson, a wealthy tech guru, whom fell off the face of the earth and has suddenly reappeared as a winery owner.  Kate heads off to Napa Valley to interview RJ and find the right angle for a great story, but what she finds in Napa is the handsome, jack of all trades, Jamie.  While Jamie could be quite distracting, she needs to find the right angle for her story on RJ.Kate made me laugh aloud.  She was witty and quick with the comebacks.  Sometimes she would blurt out what she was thinking and it was so refreshing to see a female characters just put it all out there.Jamie screams bad boy for many reasons, but is actually a sweet, caring, hard working, and sexy man who takes an interest in Kate when she crashes into his world. He works and lives on the vineyard and does a little bit of everything.  He makes it his mission to show Kate every aspect of the vineyard and be her tour guide.  But when Jamie suddenly disappears and everything Kate thought comes crashing down around her she heads back to Chicago.  A twist occurs, that actually took me a little while to pick up on.  We learn more about Jamie's life and why Kate can't believe in herself or love.More than a romance story, this was a story about life and learning to believe in oneself and what it means to open yourself up to the world and be vulnerable.  I felt Kate's pain and understood her hesitation and I swooned for Jamie.I only wish there really was a RJ Lawson Winery because I would be booking a one way ticket!"'It isn't possible to love and part.  You will wish that is was.  You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.  I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.'"