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Sofia embarks on a journey of suspense from California to Tuscany to claim her inherited vineyard and meet the sister she never knew. As if this wasn't turmoil enough, someone is out to kill her. In the rolling hills of Tuscany, Sofia Laverne from California arrives with a heavy heart, and a secret that will forever change her life. After the death of her beloved father, Sofia discovers that he had been living a double life, and that she has a younger sister, Julietta, living in the Tuscan vineyard, part of which she has inherited. Despite the warmth of a few welcoming faces, Sofia finds ...

Karla, a young painter, who lost her mother in a car crash, almost gets hit by a car. As if this wasn’t fateful enough, the driver is a carver of tombstones. Karla Bocelli, is all too familiar with loss. At age five, she lost her mother in a car crash in the south of Switzerland. Her Peruvian father lives at the other end of the world, and a year ago, her aunt and guardian passed away. Now, at age twenty-four, the talented artist has another close encounter with death when she almost gets hit by a speeding car. As if this wasn’t fateful enough, the driver turns out to be a sculptor and ...

With a captivating mystery at its core, Letter from a Cave is a suspenseful journey through Switzerland and Italy that will make readers feel a gamut of powerful emotions. Fans of Christa Polkinhorn’s other novels will be delighted to meet a few familiar characters. Don’t miss your chance to get lost in this unforgettable story! Andreas, a Swiss sculptor and stonemason, grieving the loss of his wife from three years ago, discovers an old, abandoned backpack in a cave during his hike in the Swiss mountains. What he finds within the backpack—a letter written by a young Jewish refugee ...

Stolen wine and a body create havoc at the Segantino winery When bottles of wine disappear from the Segantino Winery in Paso Robles, California, and an arson fire kills his close friend, the owner of the estate, Robert Segantino, is faced with the toughest ordeal of his career as winemaker: someone intends to destroy what he has built over the years. As it becomes increasingly clear that members of his staff and of his family are among the suspects, the ambitious wine tycoon is forced to reevaluate his goals in life, and, above all, his relationship to his son and future heir. Part family ...

A man, a woman, and a child who struggle with a difficult past meet by chance in Zurich, Switzerland. In order to live a meaningful life, they need to harness the power of love and forgiveness. Six-year-old Karla longs for her dead mother. Anna struggles with her former husband's deception, and Jonas, artist and teacher, mourns the death of his wife. While caring for and teaching Karla, who promises to be a talented painter, Anna and Jonas develop feelings for each other that go beyond friendship. The budding romance, however, hits a snag when Anna discovers a sinister secret in Jonas’s ...

A skeleton in the vineyards of the Segantino family leads Sofia on a wild chase from California to the Piedmont region in Italy in search of her missing great-uncle Angelo. The local gangsters, however, are equally interested in the elusive Angelo and are ready to kill in order to find him. Will Sofia be able to outsmart them? A hidden diary and a crumpled envelope, postmarked in Italy, are the only clues Martin Segantino has to what happened to his younger brother Angelo, the black sheep of the family, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances twenty years ago. When the police find ...