Summer in Napa
Marina Adair’s Summer in Napa (340 pages, $12.95,
Montlake Romance) follows her Kissing
under the Mistletoe with her story about the Napa Valley and the DeLuca
family.
This time, a younger member
of the family, Marco, takes an interest in Alexis Moreau, who has come limping
home to Napa after a breakup with her husband and co-restaurant owner in New
York. She has taken a room over
her grandmother’s bakery, and while there seems quite willing to help with the
baking.
Meanwhile, her romance gets
off to a rocky start. Marco likes
her, but they had a history dating from their high school days, and this does
nothing but make Lexi nervous.
Just when it seems that she
and Marco might be on solid ground, and as she tries to open her own restaurant
in Napa, the rug is pulled out from under her, when her ex sues her for all her
recipes and even those of her grandmother’s bakery. It is complicated how and why this happens, but it does, and
it creates a crisis for Lexi. Not
only does she feel unable to compete or make it in any way on her own, but also
she wonders whether Marco can have time for a loser like her.
Needless to say, they work
things out. And as they do, Adair extends her range of likable eccentrics who
populate her version of the Napa Valley.
This novel is a quick read, and a fun read, and with Adair’s other
novels about the Napa Valley promises to hold its own among the work of other
romance writers.
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