★★★★★ "I didn't know friends-to-lovers could be like this. Over a Barrel was SUCH a special book." ★★★★★"Freaking loved it! It's hilarious and hot!" Bax took his best friend, Tabi's, hand when he was five years old and has never let go. But it's getting harder to stay just friends. The story takes place over 30 years and the events of one night—two lifelong friends who can't stop crossing the line. But need to learn, or they'll lose everything, including each other. It's a friends-to-lovers, opposites-attract story about the steamy and stormy history between US Senate Candidate Baxter Schroeder and bold, brash Sonoma vintner Tabitha Aganos. Best friends who think they can ignore fate. TABITHA In 24 freaking hours, I ended up catfighting, homeless, arrested for peeing on a duck, and my boob popped out à la Janet Jackson style during a formal event. Further proving my dad's point that I'm not ready to run our family winery. And then good ole, sexy-as-hell Bax figures out a way for me to adult. My best friend once again catches me as I free-fall. Work for him to prove I'm responsible and can be trusted. If anyone can help me "grow up" in my father's eyes, it's the most adult person I know. Bax and I have steered clear of spending time together since he decided to run for Senate and become engaged because we mostly end up naked when left to our own devices. But this is a grown-up job I don't want to risk losing. I don't want to let down the only person who has always believed in me. I can keep the secret of our history tucked away, just like I can tuck my boob back in my bra and get on with not being in love with Baxter Schroeder. The Stafýlia Cellars duet is meant to be read as a set. The Stafýlia Cellars duet is a spinoff and features characters who originated in the LaChappelle/Whittier Vineyards trilogy. The story begins here and concludes in Under The Bus. A Five Families Vineyard book An interconnected standalone series by winery about the lives and loves of 5 winery families in Sonoma, California.
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I used to create "dreams" with my best friend growing up. We'd each pick a boy we liked, then we'd write down a meet-cute that always ended with a happily ever after. Now I get to dream every day, although it's a little steamier these days. And I've discovered I can and will write anywhere I can. Keep tuned to Instagram to see all the times I fit in a sentence or two. I'm a writer, married to a writer, mother of a creative dynamo of a nine-year-old boy and currently a little sleepy. I'm a klutz and goofball and love lipstick as much as my Chuck Taylors. Good things in the world: pepperoni pizza, Flair pens*, wine, coffee, laughing with my friends until my stomach hurts, a musician at the top of their game, getting lost somewhere I've never been, matinee movies on a weekday, the Chicago Cubs, a fresh new notebook full of possibilities, bourbon on a cold night, Fantasy Football, witty men, walking through the local zoo in the rain and that moment when a character clicks in and begins to write their own adventure. I'm just the pen.
