Once Upon a Wine

Starred review from June 1, 2016
Who in the world would buy a vineyard in Delaware? Cammie Breyer's Aunt Ginger, that's who, as Cammie discovers when she receives a panicked phone call from her cousin Kat, begging Cammie to come home ASAP. Even though neither Ginger nor Kat knows the first thing about making wine, there isn't anything Cammie wouldn't do for her family, which explains how she finds herself roped into being part of the new Black Dog Winery. Unfortunately, Cammie didn't think that one of the first people she would encounter would be strawberry farmer Ian McKinlay. Years ago, Cammie shared an unforgettable summer fling with Ian that ended when she refused to give up her plans to attend college in California. Now that Cammie is back in Black Dog Bay, however, she is about to learn that when it comes to growing grapes, as well as love, timing is everything. The latest sparkling addition to the Black Dog Bay series (Put a Ring on It, 2015) is brimming over with an irresistible sense of joie de vivre as Kendrick once again takes delightfully quirky characters, a madcap plot, and a deliciously sharp sense of wit and distills the lot into an unforgettable story, which truly is the essence of pure romance.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)