They’re best friends until a wine and food pairing competition
throws them together in an intimate, tension-filled setting.
throws them together in an intimate, tension-filled setting.
SAUVIGNON BLANC TO SIGH FOR
Love in Wine Country #4
Pamela Gibson
Releasing Feb 13th, 2017
Sarah James
has always wanted to be part of a family. Her divorced parents are estranged
and she has no siblings. But she does have friends, especially Sam, who’s
always underfoot…eating her food, fixing stuff in her house, and seeking advice
about his love life.
Aspiring
winemaker Sam Reynoso has taken care of Sarah since the sixth grade. She’s
smart, comfortable, and indulgent. They’re best friends until a wine and food
pairing competition throws them together in an intimate, tension-filled
setting.
As feelings
neither of them expected start to emerge, each will have to decide if their
relationship will evolve, or if their newfound love will be nipped in the bud
by a crushing secret.
Excerpt
Sarah
moved around behind him. Her subtle perfume blended with the smells in the
kitchen. “Do you think my label is okay?”
“They’re
not judging your label. They’re judging how well the food and wines complement
each other.”
“You’re
right.” He set the bottle down and turned to greet his friend, but she wasn’t
there. In her place stood a siren—that’s the first word that came to mind—in
tight leggings that hugged her hips and bared her midriff, and a fitted shirt
that tied under plump br**sts, showing a hint of cleavage.
What the hell?
But
it was the hair that got his attention.
“What
have you done to your hair?”
She
twirled in front of him, letting her hair swing from side to side
provocatively. It looked lighter, and it looked like she had way more
hair. “Where are your glasses?”
“I’m
wearing contacts. Do you like this look?” She batted her eyelashes at him and
moved closer.
He
stepped back, aware of an unaccustomed heat he’d never felt in Sarah’s house
before. She was his friend. She shouldn’t look like this.
She
seemed to be waiting for his answer, but he didn’t know what to say.
“It’s…different.”
Pamela
Gibson grew
up loving books, history, and small towns. Her first career was a newspaper
reporter, but when she returned to college to get a master’s degree, it was in
public administration which eventually led to jobs running cities…not as an
elected official, but as a city manager, the chief appointed one.
Writing
was still her passion and in her spare time—between meetings and raising two
active kids—she was contracted to write several books on local history. Taking
an early retirement at the urging of her very supportive husband, she turned to
fiction and began writing the happy ending novels she loves to read.
She now
spends half her time on land and the other half cruising coastal or inland
waters in her 32-foot boat. She speed-eats chocolates when she’s nervous,
squeals when she sees a spider, and loves to relax with a good read with a
mellow glass of wine.
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