LION'S VINEYARD is an emotional, small-town romance filled with forbidden love, family betrayal, buried secrets, heartbreaking injustice, and a second chance at happiness.
Eight years ago, Connor Martins went to prison for a crime he never committed. And he never told anyone the truth.Now he's back in Lodi, California, the town that branded him a violent criminal, the man who brutally attacked a young woman and her boyfriend. Eight years may have passed, but some reputations are impossible to escape.
Connor never intended to return, let alone stay. But his grandfather is growing frail, and the ruthless Frankel family is determined to seize their vineyard. This time, walking away means losing the last piece of home he has left.
Evie Frankel knows Connor Martins is trouble.
He's the man everyone believes hurt her sister. The man her family despises. And the last man she should ever want.
But the more time Evie spends with Connor, the harder it becomes to reconcile the dangerous man everyone describes with the man who makes her heart race.
He has a past he refuses to explain.
She belongs to the family determined to destroy his future.
And as forbidden attraction turns into something neither can control, the truth buried eight years ago threatens to tear everything apart.
Because sometimes the man everyone calls a monster is the only one who knows what really happened.