This Splendid Earth — V.J. Banis / Victor J. Banis

On a stormy night of political intrigue in 1830 Paris, the dashing Baron Jean de Brussac took and tamed his headstrong bride, Anne de Grenville. From that smoldering union, a proud and ambitious dynasty was born destined to forge a wine-growing empire such as never had been seen in the lush, rolling hills of distant California.