This post will contain “spoilers”
Lanie Jacobs’ Husband has been dead for six months. In that time several women have come forward as his widow. Finding out her husband was a serial adulterer rocked her to her core. Desperate for a break she takes a temporary job working for a family-run Winery. The Capriotti family takes her under their wing and tries to make her feel like family. Mark Capriotti, Deputy Sherriff, father of twin girls, wants her to feel just as welcome but still protect his family. Things seem to be going well for her when Twenty-One year-old pregnant River shows up looking for a job.
Like the first book this wasn’t really a romance book but more fiction. It was a story about the relationships between characters then the romance in the story. The romance between Mark and Lanie was written really well the book itself was more about relationships. I liked that it was set in Wildstone and some of the characters from the first one came in briefly but it was about this whole new set of people.
What I didn’t like was how the relationship with River was handled. It was obvious when River showed up it was very obvious she was wife number whatever. When it finally comes out that she was another wife the Capriotti family seemed to be of the mind that Lanie needed to get over it. River needed help and it wasn’t her fault that the dead husband was an ass. It frustrated me that Lanie was made to be the bad guy because she wasn’t over it yet and had plans to go home. I get that River was not to blame for what happened and I am in no way blaming her for her part in this. However, if it took Lanie 50 years get over her husband cheating and getting another woman pregnant that is her prerogative. The situation sucked and she needed support and was basically told suck it up and deal with it. River has it worse because she is 21 with a new baby.
Even though at times I really didn’t like how some of Capriotti family handled the Lanie’s big secret I enjoyed the story.
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