The Wines of Cyprien — Dorothy Daniels

LIQUOR OF LOVE, ASHES OF DECEIT. It begins in the California of frontier days, and stretches across the ocean to the lush French wine-country -- the surging epic of the Cyprien family and their 50-year struggle to build the most prestigious vineyards in all of North America. THE WINES OF CYPRIEN is a saga bursting with human conflict and passion -- a story of strong men and proud women who are ruled by necessity, by greed, by love ... whose triumphs and defeats are etched against the panorama of a growing America. The guilty secret that began the House of Cyprien's fantastic rise ... the hidden shame of a proud Cyprien daughter ... and the ill-fated romance of another daughter ... all are played out amid the tumult of building, the echoes of war, and the crescendo of human passion and ambition that fill the world of the fabulous Cyprien dynasty.