title: Ready to Soar
author: Race, Lucinda
description: Kate McKenna Price is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her in-laws announced their retirement with the expectation that Don would return to the family business, a winery located three hours due west of Kate and Don’s home in Loudon. To make matters worse, her in-laws offered Kate her own restaurant as a bribe. Ever loyal to her mother, she is holding fast to her roots at What’s Perkin’. Kate devises a plan for Don to work from home and drive to the winery every few weeks. But as time passes, the couple’s struggle to have a baby adds pressure to their strained living arrangements. A wedge is being driven into the very heart of their marriage. Will the ghost of Kate’s father be able to reach his headstrong daughter to offer guidance before all she holds dear slips away? Meanwhile, Peyton Brien, a childhood friend to the entire Price family, now works for Crystal Lake Winery, and she is keeping a secret. Determined to discover what she is hiding, Don asks Kate to befriend the young mother to see what she can unearth. Will Peyton’s secret shatter what is left of Kate and Don’s marriage?