Fairytale
About This Book
Camille Lammenais grew up among the vineyards of the Napa Valley, where her parents, Christophe and Joy, built a celebrated winery and a château modeled on Christophe's family estate in his native Bordeaux. Their marriage is still a love story after twenty years, and Camille's childhood is happy and secure. After graduating from Stanford she comes home to help run Château Joy, the future she has always wanted. Then her mother dies of cancer, and the life the family built together ends. Six months later, Christophe is still shattered by grief when a charming Frenchwoman arrives in the valley. The Countess de Pantin is polished, glamorous and thoroughly Parisian, and within weeks she and Christophe are secretly together. Camille, who is still mourning, is stunned to learn that her father plans to marry again. As she looks past the countess's beauty, expensive clothes and graceful manners, she begins to suspect that her trusting father is being drawn into a trap. A second tragedy leaves Camille at the mercy of her stepmother and two menacing stepsons who arrive with her. She must first fight to keep her inheritance and then to stay alive, while schemes against her close in. Her one ally is the countess's elderly mother, a kind and sharp-witted woman, and a childhood friend turns out to be the sort of hero a fairytale calls for. This is a modern retelling of the wicked stepmother story, set in California wine country, with a heroine who has to find her courage after losing nearly everything.
ISBN: 9781101884089
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