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BIBLIOGRAPHY

ISBN: 9781842432495
Price: £10.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: Royal (234 x 156mm)
Extent: 352pp
Rights: World
Pub. Date: August 2008

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gwen C. Watkins, founder and co-owner of Astra Wine Imports, worked in the wine industry for over twenty years, pioneering the introduction of Australian wines in the United States. Before selling the company in 2000, she travelled extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Chile and England, working with suppliers to select products for the US market. She currently resides in South Florida with her husband, Richard Gupta.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Struggling to come to grips with the death of her husband and business partner, Sarah Bennett is just beginning to stabilize the precarious financial state of her Atlanta-based wine importing company and get her personal life back in order, when she finds herself embroiled in a bitter battle with the brand manager for Bluestone Cellars, a historic family winery now owned by the Addison Group, Australia's largest and most powerful wine conglomerate.

Sarah is suddenly facing almost certain bankruptcy with the precipitous drop in her Bluestone Cellars wine sales after a series of appalling ratings by Sam Somers, the world's most famous wine writer - ratings that may be more firmly rooted in Somers' personal vendetta against her, rather than in the quality of Bluestone's wines.

Once in Australia, she travels to the Barossa Valley with the Addison Group's Chief Winemaker, and what should have been a routine trip to taste Bluestone Cellars' new vintages turns into a nightmare, when Sarah stumbles upon a mysterious file that could put the billion-dollar Australian wine industry at risk. When she is attacked by a knife-wielding killer and people around her start dying, instead of fighting for her contract, Sarah finds herself fighting for her life.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'Gwen C. Watkins’s debut novel, delivers a formidable kick... a grand feat of storytelling' - Paul Kane, The Compulsive Reader site [read the full review]