Thirteen years ago, Natalie lost a part of herself when her twin sister died. Will traveling back to the family winery finally put the memory to rest, or will it completely destroy her?
When Natalie Mitchell learns her beloved grandfather has had a heart attack, she’s forced to return to their family-owned winery in Sonoma, something she never intended to do. She’s avoided her grandparents’ sprawling home and all its memories since the summer her sister died—the awful summer Natalie’s nightmares began. But the winery is failing, and Natalie’s father wants her to shut it down. As the majority shareholder, she has the power to do so.
And Natalie never says no to her father.
Tanner Collins, the vintner on Maoilios, is trying to salvage a bad season and put the Mitchell family’s winery back in business. When Natalie Mitchell shows up, Tanner sees his future about to be crushed. Natalie intends to close the gates, unless he can convince her otherwise. But the Natalie he remembers from childhood is long gone, and he’s not so sure he likes the woman she’s become. Still, the haunted look she wears hints at secrets he wants to unearth. He soon discovers that on the night her sister died, the real Natalie died too. And Tanner must do whatever it takes to resurrect her.
But finding freedom from the past means facing it.
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Summary
Book Title: The Memory of You
Book Author: Catherine West
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"Nothing was different. But everything had changed."
Teetering on the edge of an emotional breakdown, public relations manager Natalie Mitchell takes a leave of absence from a successful position in her father's New York enterprise and travels across the country to her grandfather's California estate. Having learned of Hal Mitchell's recent heart attack, Natalie's father pressures her as the majority share holder in the Maolios winery, to use her bargaining power as a means to close down the fledgling family business, once and for all. Arriving back on the property where she was once the happiest, before she became the saddest; Natalie is not even sure that she is capable of pushing beyond the suffocating memories that surround her there; for part of her died on that fateful evening, when an horrific accident took the life of a most beloved sister.
Vintner Tanner Collins is not at all pleased to see the New York granddaughter anywhere near Maolios, in fact he is incensed that she would even consider shutting down the renowned winery before listening to some of his ideas for revitalization. There was a day when Tanner considered Natalie Mitchell to be his best friend, but the elegant, hollow-eyed woman standing before him now is barely a shadow of his childhood acquaintance. What in the world has happened to Natalie?
As Natalie and Tanner slowly warm through their initial impressions, it becomes apparent that they have much more in common than either of them could ever have imagined. Guilt is a painful adversary for which grace and forgiveness are the only possible antidotes.
Catherine West has not only written a lovely romance, but she has managed to weave gutsy, realistic scenarios into every aspect of this story, allowing her readers to fight valiantly alongside her characters, who are desperate for freedom from the bondage of their pasts. I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of this book from the author; the opinions that I have stated are entirely my own.
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