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The Winemaker's Wife by Kristin Harmel

The Winemaker's Wife

by Kristin Harmel
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  • Aug 13, 2019, 400 pages
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  • Mar 2020, 400 pages
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A heavy silence hung in the damp air. How long would it be before the quiet of the cellars was punctured by the thud of goose-stepping boots overhead? Before everything they'd built was threatened, perhaps destroyed?

"Well then," Michel said at last. "I suppose it is time we finish hiding the champagne."

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Excerpted from The Winemaker's Wife by Kristin Harmel. Copyright © 2019 by Kristin Harmel. Excerpted by permission of Gallery Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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