title: Sweeter Than Wine
author: August, Michaela
description: On the eve of Prohibition, Alice Roye, a young war widow, desperately needs a vintner for her winery, because without a license to make sacramental wine for the Church, she'll have to go back to her mother's Barbary Coast bordello. Alice doesn't expect to marry the new vintner, but blackmailed by the matriarch of her late husband's family, she does. Can she trust this gaunt, blond stranger -- or keep from falling in love with him?
  
  Blackmailed by the matriarch of her husband's family into marrying the vintner she desperately needs to save her Sonoma winery, war widow Alice Roye never expected to fall in love with a gaunt, blond stranger. Sigfried, a refugee from the Great War with nothing left but his skills as a winemaker, finds in Alice's arms the home he thought he'd lost forever. But he knows he can never tell her he was a soldier- for the enemy her first husband died fighting. Everyone has secrets. Will the lies in their pasts destroy everything they hope to build.