- Blessed Are the Cheesemakers was published in Warner hardcover (0-446-53128-6) in 7/03 and was chosen as a Book Sense Selection. It won widespread acclaim in publications, including Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Midwest Book Review, Salisbury Post, and Wichita Times Record News, among others.
- This trade edition ties to the publication of the author's new Warner hardcover, By Bread Alone (10/05) and will feature a teaser chapter from it (see page 20).
- Blessed Are The Cheesemakers has been optioned by Working Title Films, the producers of such runaway hit films as About a Boy,...

Lonely Clementine is the rightful heir to the House of Peine, the vineyard that has been in the family for generations. She has spent her whole life caring for the vines, not to mention her sour brute of a father. But now the Peine patriarch is dead, and to Clementine s distress his will stipulates that she must share the vineyard with a half-sister she hasn t seen in twenty years and another she didn t even know existed. Secrets tumble out as the three sisters struggle to rescue the family heritage while overcoming their own differences. As a precious blend of grapes, tears and triumph...

Love, loss, and the redemptive power of breadmaking are the irresistible ingredients in this warm, witty novel by the author of Blessed Are the Cheesemakers.

New from the author of House of Daughters- an irresistible confection of love, loss, and Italian sweets in the delectable tradition of Chocolat
Corporate star Lily Turner abandons the boardrooms of Manhattan for the steep streets of Montevedova when she discovers her "perfect" husband, Daniel, has another family tucked away in the hills of Tuscany. Once there, her plight attracts the attention of the Secret League of Widowed Darners, an all-but-invisible army pulling strings behind the scenes to create happy endings. Soon founding members, Violetta and Luciana, are...