Dutton Adult
March 2012
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Featuring: Rosa Diaz Barclay
416 pages ISBN: 0525952640 EAN: 9780525952640 Kindle: B005GSYY4E Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini,
a powerful and dramatic Prohibition-era story that follows
the fortunes of Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman who plunges into
the unknown for the safety of her children and the love of a
good but flawed man. As the nation grapples with the
strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern
California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has
lately found another source of income far outside the
federal purview. Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the
loss of four who succumbed to the mysterious wasting disease
that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters
born of another father are in perfect health. When an act of
violence shatters Rosa's resolve to maintain her
increasingly dangerous existence, she flees with the
children and her precious heirloom quilts to the mesa where
she last saw her beloved mother alive. As a flash flood
traps them in a treacherous canyon, only one man is brave-or
foolhardy-enough to come to their rescue: Lars Jorgenson,
Rosa's first love and the father of her healthy daughters.
Together they escape to Berkeley, where a leading specialist
offers their only hope of saving Ana and Miguel. Here in
northern California, they create new identities to protect
themselves from Rosa's vengeful husband, the police who seek
her for questioning, and the gangsters Lars reported to
Prohibition agents-officers representing a department often
as corrupt as the Mob itself. Ever mindful that his youthful
alcoholism provoked Rosa to spurn him, Lars nevertheless
supports Rosa's daring plan to stake their futures on a
struggling Sonoma Valley vineyard-despite the recent
hardships of local winemakers whose honest labors at
viticulture have, through no fault of their own, become
illegal.
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