Sonoma Rose (Elm Creek Quilts Series #19)

Sonoma Rose (Elm Creek Quilts Series #19)

by Jennifer Chiaverini
Sonoma Rose (Elm Creek Quilts Series #19)

Sonoma Rose (Elm Creek Quilts Series #19)

by Jennifer Chiaverini

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101560372
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/21/2012
Series: Elm Creek Quilts Series , #19
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 432
Sales rank: 135,769
File size: 748 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Jennifer Chiaverini is the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's DressmakerFates and Traitors, and other acclaimed works of historical fiction, as well as the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series. She lives with her husband and two sons in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Praise for the Elm Creek Quilt Series:

"Imparts a healthy dollop of history in a folksy style, while raising moral questions in a suspenseful narrative." —Publishers Weekly

"Warm and wise, full of quilting lore...One of the beauties of this series is that readers can start at the beginning or jump to the end. Each novel stands alone, while for devoted followers, each new volume is like a visit with old friends." —The South Cheatham Advocate (Kingston Springs, TN)

"Come os the most compelling characters you'll ever want to meet." —Green Bay Press Gazette

"A new generation of quilters embraces the craft with gusto...following the lead of author Jennifer Chiaverini." —Seattle Post Intelligencer

"Chiaverini's Elm Creek Quilts books...have become classics of their kind." —The Dallas Morning News

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