Christa Polkinhorn

Family Portrait

1 - An Uncommon Family (Feb-2011)
2 - Love of a Stonemason (Apr-2011)
3 - Emilia (Mar-2013)

The Wine Lover's Daughter

1 - The Italian Sister (Aug-2015)
2 - Finding Angelo (Jul-2016)
3 - Fire in the Vineyard (Dec-2018)

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  An Uncommon Family
  

  • Feb-2011
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  Family Portrait - 1
  

  Three people with a troubled past meet in Zurich, Switzerland. Six-year-old Karla longs for her dead mother. Anna struggles with her former husband's deception, and Jonas mourns the death of his wife. While caring for little Karla, Anna and Jon...

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  Love of a Stonemason
  

  • Apr-2011
  • / Literary
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  Family Portrait - 2
  

  The young painter, Karla Bocelli, is all too familiar with loss. When she was five years old, her mother died in a car crash in the south of Switzerland. Her Peruvian father lives at the other end of the world, and a year ago, her aunt and guardian p...

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  Path of Fire
  

  • Jun-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  Emilia
  

  • Mar-2013
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  Family Portrait - 3
  

  Turmoil reigns in the O’Reilly-Bocelli household. With her two older children, Laura and Tonio, grown and getting ready to fly the coop, Karla finds out she is pregnant again. Instead of devoting her time and energy fully to her painting career, sh...

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  The Italian Sister
  

  • Aug-2015
  • / Romantic Suspense
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  The Wine Lover's Daughter - 1
  

  Standing at her father’s grave in California, Sofia Laverne mourns his untimely death. Henry had not only been a loving parent but Sofia’s best friend and mentor. Imagine her shock and grief when she finds out her father had lived a double-life, ...

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  Finding Angelo
  

  • Jul-2016
  • / Thriller
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  The Wine Lover's Daughter - 2
  

  A hidden diary and a crumpled envelope, postmarked in Italy, are the only clues Martin Segantino has to what happened to his younger brother Angelo, the black sheep of the family, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances twenty years ago. When ...

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  Fire in the Vineyard
  

  • Dec-2018
  • / Romantic Suspense
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  The Wine Lover's Daughter - 3
  

  When bottles of wine disappear from the Segantino Winery in Paso Robles, California, and an arson fire kills his close friend, the owner of the estate, Robert Segantino, is faced with the toughest ordeal of his career as winemaker: someone intends to...

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  Letter from a Cave
  

  • Jul-2023
  • / Historical
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  With a captivating mystery at its core, Letter from a Cave is a suspenseful journey through Switzerland and Italy that will make readers feel a gamut of powerful emotions. Fans of Christa Polkinhorn's other novels will be delighted to meet a few fami...

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