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Starting Over at the Vineyard in Alsace: An uplifting, feel-good romance (Domaine des Montagnes Book 2) Kindle Edition
| Julie Stock (Author) See search results for this author |
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She’s proud, independent and about to be a single mum. Since his wife died, he’s become fiercely protective. Can they take another chance on love?
After being abandoned by her partner when she falls pregnant, Lottie Schell goes home to live on The Vineyard in Alsace determined to raise her child and to provide for them both without having to depend on anyone else.
Thierry Bernard is still dealing with his grief and guilt following the death of his wife two years earlier. He needs to move on from the tragedy of his past and to accept the truth of what happened.
When circumstances force Lottie and Thierry closer together and their attraction deepens, they both find it hard to compromise – and they’re both wary about trusting someone new with their heart.
Can Lottie and Thierry move on from their pasts, find a new beginning together and start over?
Escape to The Vineyard in Alsace with this romantic read set in springtime in the heart of this picturesque French wine region.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date14 July 2020
- File size3857 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B089GX643P
- Publisher : Clued Up Publishing (14 July 2020)
- Language : English
- File size : 3857 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 252 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1916218024
- Best Sellers Rank: 12,835 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 28 in French Travel
- 374 in Holiday Fiction (Kindle Store)
- 793 in Contemporary Romance Fiction
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About the author

Julie Stock writes contemporary feel-good romance from around the world: novels, novellas and short stories. She published her debut novel, From Here to Nashville, in 2015, after starting to write as an escape from the demands of her day job as a teacher. A Leap of Faith at the Vineyard in Alsace is her latest book, and the third in the Domaine des Montagnes series set on a vineyard.
Julie is now a full-time author, and loves every minute of her writing life. When not writing, she can be found reading, her favourite past-time, running, a new hobby, or cooking up a storm in the kitchen, glass of wine in hand.
If you'd like to sign up to her newsletter list, you can do so via her website - www.julie-stock.co.uk. You can also connect with Julie on Twitter - @wood_beez48. Julie is a member of The Romantic Novelists' Association and The Society of Authors.
She is married and lives with her family in Cambridgeshire in the UK.
Author photo credit: Michael Yershov
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It was lovely to be back in Alsace again, the descriptions of the town, vineyard, chateau make you feel as though you are there. The French phrases used also give the story authenticity.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story and cannot wait for the next book. Congratulations.
That's what I found out with this story as well as the first one now we need to know what happened next for fran lottie and everyone
Thrown into single motherhood whilst still mending her broken heart, Lottie is determined not to be reliant on any man, ever again, despite tentatively starting a relationship with vineyard winemaker Thierry. Things are moving at quite a pace for Thierry too. He is still grieving, and blaming himself, for his wife’s death two years ago but doesn’t want to repeat his previous mistakes and lose a chance of happiness with Lottie. This book is a rollercoaster of female hormones and emotions as Lottie, and those around her, get to grips with pregnancy, a new baby, new relationships and trust issues.
There were times when I wanted to knock some sense into Lottie, but I loved following their emotional journey, all the time keeping my fingers crossed they’d find a way forward, and together. Fran is always on hand to support her sister, even while going through a tough, emotional time herself as she and Didier plan their vineyard wedding. This book does cover some difficult and sensitive issues in places, handled in a thoughtful and compassionate way.
The vineyard itself provides a constant, grounding backdrop to the drama. The daily inspections of the vines, the changing of the seasons, the issues of weather and disease, all help to keep a focus and calm a troubled mind. It was a great reminder that taking a walk outdoors can be a real benefit to the mind and body when things around you get tough.
I really enjoyed being back at the vineyard in Alsace, and this book has left me wanting more. I do hope there will be a third book in this series in the future.
I will admit though that I’m rather sorry I started with the second in a series: although it’s a standalone, I really do think you might enjoy this book more if you first read The Vineyard in Alsace. I did struggle a little at first with the relationships between the characters, until I decided it really didn’t matter – I could just enjoy the story of Lottie and Thierry and let everything else become background.
And I really did enjoy watching that relationship develop. At the start of the book, Lottie is heavily pregnant and concerned about the future: Thierry is more than happy to take her on, although the child isn’t his, but he does have some major issues of his own that might stand in the way of the hoped for happy ending. He is carrying a lot of guilt about the death of his wife two years earlier, and his grief is still very raw.
Meanwhile Lottie appears to be intent in rejecting everything he tries to do to help her – I really felt for Thierry, and I did find Lottie particularly difficult to like. But her worries about impending motherhood are very well done, and I did warm to her rather more when seeing her in the context of her family – and even more when she became a mother herself.
The supporting characters were very well drawn too – I particularly liked Ellie, and I’d like to see her at the heart of a future story so I could get to know her better.
In essence, this was an engaging story about two damaged people needing to overcome their problems and learn to trust each other before they can move forward. There aren’t many laughs, but I didn’t expect them, and the emotional content is very well handled – and the author’s writing, particularly in the way she gets beneath the skin and into the thoughts of her two main characters by exposing both their viewpoints, is as excellent as ever.





