Six months after Lanie Jacobs’ husband’s death, it’s hard to imagine anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss. But then Lanie discovers she isn’t the only one grieving his sudden passing. A serial adulterer, he left behind several other women who, like Lanie, each believe she was his legally wedded wife.
Rocked by the infidelity, Lanie is left to grapple with searing questions. How could she be so wrong about a man she thought she knew better than anyone? Will she ever be able to trust another person? Can she even trust herself?
Desperate to make a fresh start, Lanie impulsively takes a job at the family-run Capriotti Winery. At first, she feels like an outsider among the boisterous Capriottis. With no real family of her own, she’s bewildered by how quickly they all take her under their wing and make her feel like she belongs. Especially Mark Capriotti, a gruffly handsome Air Force veteran turned deputy sheriff who manages to wind his way into Lanie’s cold, broken heart—along with the rest of the clan.
Everything is finally going well for her, but the arrival of River Green changes all that. The fresh-faced twenty-one-year old seems as sweet as they come…until her dark secrets come to light—secrets that could destroy the new life Lanie’s only just begun to build. AMAZON 5+ Stars
I fell in love with this story. It happened pretty quickly and steadily.
The Capriotti family is hilarious. The opening chapter when Lanie first met them made me grin from ear to ear. They were nuts but in the best possible way. So many of the conversations in the book were funny to with a lot of sarcastic humor. Don't worry though there will be a developing romance between Lanie and Mark. It's more like a dance of 1 step forward and 2 steps back. And it's like that for quite a while without being boring.
Something else that made me grin was the opening headline for each chapter. Some pretty funny thoughts with Anxiety often doing some talking. Of course one on my favorites had to be the one about cucumbers. "The human body is 90 percent water so basically we're all just cucumbers with anxiety." I'm not sure everyone is going to get that but I loved it.
There is plenty of emotional issues going on and I think it was pretty well done.
Cora was the heart of the story too. And she shared with her big heart with everyone but that didn't mean that she couldn't be the tough boss when she needed to be.
The twin little girls Samantha (Sam) and Sierra (Sea) were a welcome, loving but so often mischievous hoot!
Every single person in the book was someone interesting in their own right. They also had depth and I was almost sorry to see the book come to an end. A happy ending but still. Everyone became a part of the Capriotti family even if it's not by blood. They pulled people into their heart often and when you were in you were in.
Even with all of the serious issues facing the people in the book I also never laughed so hard or so much in a long time while reading a book.
This book shot up to the top of my favorites list. It was a book that I borrowed but I loved it so much that I will just have to get my own copy so that I can re-read it.
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