Renovation Season
A forensic accountant returning to her grandmother's vineyard meets the harvest-season interloper who has been there before she came home.
When the Renaud Family Cellars matriarch dies in the off-season, Elena Renaud comes back to the Willamette Valley to handle the estate · and the books · and finds that the vineyard's new harvest manager has already moved into the small house at the edge of the property she always assumed would be hers someday.
Caleb Voss is the kind of slow-to-trust, slow-to-speak hire her grandmother would have loved and Elena was supposed to vet. He's here for the harvest, then back to his consulting practice. He says. The fact that he keeps showing up at the kitchen table at six in the morning to brew coffee in the cabin Elena was supposed to be using is, presumably, coincidence.
Six weeks. Twenty acres of pinot noir. The tasting room reopening, a vineyard the family can't quite afford to keep, and a man who refuses to flirt back. By the time the first leaves turn, Elena will have learned what her grandmother meant by "the vineyard chooses you, not the other way around" · and whether she's ready to be chosen.