When Blake Ryann receives a call notifying him of his father's death he rushes to the funeral only to find himself among total strangers. Even more shocking than his father's death is that the man had an entire second family in a small Napa winery, including a beautiful grieving widow and grown son. Furious and betrayed, he sets out to unravel his father's mysterious double life, and vows to make the illegitimate family go away. But then he meets a woman at the winery whose sensual nature calls to the emotions he's repressed all his life. Can this fiery, dark-haired beauty make him surrender his quest for vengeance? All her life Mikaela Dulcinea has longed to escape her sheltered world. The winery where she works has employed her family for generations, and her traditional father thinks she should want nothing more than to marry and grow the family tree. Mikaela wants to go to college, see the world, and make her own life. Dashing and worldly, Blake Ryann epitomizes everything she yearns for, and she's instantly attracted. But can she melt the icy heart of this arrogant executive? Or will he be as inflexible as her controlling family?