Sweeter Than Wine

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.

Siegfried, 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's 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?

**About the Author:**

Michaela August is a writing team composed of two Northern California authors, Marian Gibbons and Karin Welss. Despite living 90 miles apart, they've been collaborating for over five years, using telephones and the Internet.