Evangeline's Vines

This book was born from a real life picture. A picture of a vineyard woman holding a falcon. The picture developed steadily into a romance novel. Falcons were used by vineyard managers to hunt birds which ate the grapes. This novel teases the grapes slowly before devouring them. Evangeline's Vines is a wicked and wild adventure into the twisted psyche of Evangeline Langlois. As a thirty one year old spinster socialite in 1893 New Orleans, her father gambles away her inheritance and sells her to his creditor. At thirty one, love has passed her by. Or so it seemed. When she is resold into a New Orleans brothel, a debonair winemaker from California, falls for her and whisks her away to his vineyard. Enamored by her new life in the vineyard, and the married man who has rescued her, she must fight off the urge to love him. She finds a perfect niche as his new vineyard manager. But when a young, handsome falconer visits the vineyard, availing his services, she is torn. The falconer, on a mission to save his sister's life, collides with the tumultuous vineyard owner and Evangeline. A well-choreographed dance of seduction tangles all three in love and winemaking. But she ends up learning more about love in the vines, than between the sheets. Witty banter abounds as these misfits of love have a wild adventure that spans the far corners of the continent. At about 68,000 words, this is a delightfully twisted romance. But can any man truly untangle the complicated vines in the mind of Evangeline?