Genre ~ romance
Featuring ~ characters in their 20’s, winery setting
Series ~ Rose Valley ~ book 1
Release date ~ September 17, 2022
POV ~ dual ~ 1st person
Page count ~ 300
My rating ~ 3.25ā
My review:
Sienna and Will
Sienna is a sommelier at the Monroe Winery. Willās family owns the winery that Sienna works at. Heās smitten with her right from the beginning. But she canāt believe he would want anything to do with her since they’re from two different worlds. She was really hung up on the fact that Will is an heir to a fortune and she’s just a normal working girl trying to take care of her sick father. I did admire her need to take care of everything on her own, but I really wanted her to gain more confidence.
There were some sad moments that just broke my heart for Sienna and one of them brings us to the cliffhanger ending.
All in all, while I don’t agree with some parts of the story, I do applaud the author’s effort to bring a story that tries to both yank at the heartstrings and put a smile on your face.
Side note ~ I liked the nod to 2 of my favorite golfers ~ Bryson and Brooks.
*Thanks to Ally for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
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Book blurb:
The home I know is the home I found by chance. My mom told me Iād find love here. For some reason, I didnāt believe her.
Staying afloat is hard enough for twenty-three-year-old Sienna Durham. After losing heAr mother in a car accident, Siennaās left to take care of her disabled father years later. As an aspiring winemaker, she keeps her mom close by becoming a sommelier at Monroe Vineyards, an exclusive winery in wealthy Rose Valley, Kentucky. With the snooty clientele that inhabit it, Sienna knows Monroe is way out of her league. Until smolderingly hot Will Monroe enters her life. He knows heās hot stuff. As the heir of his parents’ winery and a known womanizer, heās had his fair share of high-profile women. But heās immediately drawn to the striking sommelier with the centerfold body and witty personality.
Will Monroe, the heir to a multi-billion-dollar vineyard. Sienna Durham, a struggling sommelier. This can’t work.
Or maybe it can. But there’s something keeping them apart.
A secret. A secret that might threaten Sienna’s idea of what she calls home. Monroe has become her home. But a brief revisit to her haunted past changes everything she thought she knew
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This sounds like something that I would enjoy. I can understand wanting to see Sienna have more confidence.