The Wine Merchant

This is a complete novel! Start with #1 and continue in numerical order. Time travel in the footsteps of the Widow Cliquot with Claire Julliot as she chronicles French village life through periods of Love, War, and Champagne. Follow Claire as she falls in love, becomes a wine buyer and then owner of an unassuming village wine shop - and front for an investigative agency simply named The Wine Merchant. Turn Claire’s diary pages to the present where Claire and her team of 'fixers' respond to their clients’ desperate pleas for help. This unlikely team discretely unwinds layers of mystery to reveal thieves and counterfeits. In so doing, they simultaneously protect the makers and especially the heritage of the region. But there's more - Return with Claire to the vineyards of Sonoma where the aunts will always be waiting at the BeeKeeper’s Cottage. Everyone understands that none of this could happen without the help of aunts – the original fixers in our lives -those people who step in to help. Some are known to us while others are not. The Wine Merchant is like an aunt - always there and ready to help without the need for recognition.