Sonoma Rose

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer
Chiaverini, a powerful and dramatic Prohibition-era
story that follows the fortunes of Rosa Diaz Barclay, a
woman who plunges into the unknown for the safety of
her children and the love of a good but flawed man.

As the nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a
Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found
another source of income far outside the federal purview.

Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of four who succumbed to the
mysterious wasting disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters
born of another father are in perfect health. When an act of violence shatters Rosa’s
resolve to maintain her increasingly dangerous existence, she flees with the children
and her precious heirloom quilts to the mesa where she last saw her beloved mother
alive.

As a flash flood traps them in a treacherous canyon, only one man is brave—or
foolhardy—enough to come to their rescue: Lars Jorgenson, Rosa’s first love and the
father of her healthy daughters. Together they escape to Berkeley, where a leading
specialist offers their only hope of saving Ana and Miguel. Here in northern California,
they create new identities to protect themselves from Rosa’s vengeful husband, the
police who seek her for questioning, and the gangsters Lars reported to Prohibition
agents—officers representing a department often as corrupt as the Mob itself. Ever
mindful that his youthful alcoholism provoked Rosa to spurn him, Lars nevertheless
supports Rosa’s daring plan to stake their futures on a struggling Sonoma Valley
vineyard—despite the recent hardships of local winemakers whose honest labors at
viticulture have, through no fault of their own, become illegal.

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