The Life After
She keeps asking when she’s going back to her old life. He asks the harder question.
Daniel Hart walks away from a lucrative corporate career and impulsively purchases a struggling Virginia vineyard.
Unfortunately, he knows almost nothing about wine.
Elena Rossi knows everything about it — and believes the wealthy outsider who just bought the vineyard may destroy something generations of people have built.
Conflict becomes reluctant partnership, and eventually attraction. Because some things don’t need replacing. They need tending.
Former private-equity executive.
Winemaker and vineyard manager.
She keeps asking when she’s going back to her old life. He asks the harder question.
He chose the game. Twenty years later, the game is over.
The hard part isn’t that he hates her for leaving. He doesn’t.
Falling in love in their fifties makes them feel young. Their teenagers have opinions.