Bookworm Press

It’s finally happening. My new novel, the third book in the Wine Lover’s Daughter series, is ready to be published. My graphic designer, Diane Busch, created a hot cover for it!

Here is the blurb:

When bottles of wine disappear from the Segantino Winery and an arson fire kills his close friend, the owner of the estate, Robert Segantino, is faced with the toughest ordeal of his career as winemaker: someone intends to destroy what he has built over the years. As it becomes increasingly clear that members of his staff and of his family are among the suspects, the ambitious wine tycoon is forced to reevaluate his goals in life, and, above all, his relationship to his son and future heir. Part family drama, part suspense, FIRE IN THE VINEYARD takes the reader on another thrilling adventure through one of California’s wine countries.

If you haven’t read the first two books in the series, THE ITALIAN SISTER and FINDING ANGELO and would like to do so, the ebook versions will be available for FREE on Amazon for 2 days–Tuesday and Wednesday, 10/30 and 10/31. If you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, you can read them for free anytime.

Links are underneath the book covers below.

It would make me very happy if after reading them you would leave a brief, honest review on Amazon. This doesn’t have to be a professional literary critique, just a couple of sentences about what you liked or didn’t like about the book. The reviews are of course entirely voluntary. The more reviews the books receive, however, the more visible they become and the more potential readers will see them. Reviews really make a big difference!

Here are the links–but wait until Tuesday, October 30 when they are free, unless, of course, you want to buy the books and add to my royalty income.

The Italian Sister: https://myBook.to/ItalianSister
Finding Angelo: https://myBook.to/FindingAngelo

As soon as FIRE IN THE VINEYARD is available,  I’ll let you know. This should happen very soon.

Thank you for your time and loyalty.
Christa

This was another opportunity to combine fun with research for my novel, Finding Angelo, Book 2 in The Wine Lover’s Daughter series.

I’m staying in Switzerland at my second home for a while. My nephew had an important birthday and his niece, my great-niece, organized a wonderful trip for the family to an old castle in the Piedmont region, Italy, just south of Switzerland.

The castle was renovated and turned into a hotel and restaurant. However, whatever could be kept of the medieval structure was left intact. You could get lost on the inside of the buildings with its many hallways and secret pathways. Pictures of the predecessors of the castle looked down from the walls of every room and I swear I heard a ghost at night, rattling in the hallways. Hmmm?

The towns below are Pavone and Ivrea.

Gorgeous suites and bedrooms, all in the old style with paintings from the original castle.

View from the castle.

The gardens are well kept but natural.

Dinner and breakfast were served in a vaulted cellar.

Very romantic and special. Who knows, my next novel may take place in the Piedmont in Italy!

March 2018: What started out as an idea about a novel became reality. Finding Angelo, Book 2 in my The Wine Lover’s Daughter series does take place in the  Piedmont, and, in part, at the Castello di Pavone!

https://myBook.to/FindingAngelo

More about the castle and its history: http://www.castellodipavone.com/en