Of Gold & Blood Series 4 - Books #7 & 8

Book Bundle 3 Of Gold & Blood series: Tainted Fortune (full length mystery, Book 7 and Captive Heart - a Hawaiian Christmas Novella, Book 8)

Their paths crossed with complicated histories and uncertain futures. Will their precarious connection be their undoing?

 

San Francisco, 1870. Sugar heiress Leilani Manolo is determined to keep her family's business afloat after her grandfather’s death. But when a key contract is cancelled, her attempts to secure a new deal with an influential import agent meet with a firm rejection. And though she’s in competition with a charming French winemaker, they’re thrown together in chaotic circumstance when the agent is murdered in front of their eyes.

Vintner Aristide Laurent is desperate to avoid more scandal. Craving the prestigious contest win needed to get his vintages into New York and Paris restaurants, he can’t afford to involve himself with the stunning Hawaiian accused of murder. But despite his best efforts, he finds himself ensnared in her affairs.

Implicated in the killing and driven to save her family’s livelihood, Leilani digs deep into a complex conspiracy. And although Aristide endeavors to help, he’s forced to fight for his career when his good name is threatened by a shady cabal.

Will their struggles to succeed lead them to a tragic end, or can they find a happily ever after?

Captive Heart, A Hawaiian Christmas Novella Of Gold & Book, Book Eight
Leilani and Aristide's follow-up story....

They thought they knew the meaning of sacrifice. But the hardest choice is yet to come.

Sugar heiress Leilani Manolo and French wine maker Aristide Laurent defied death and discovered a magnetic attraction during one turbulent San Francisco winter, but they knew a future together “wasn’t to be.”

Leilani belonged in Honolulu heading the family business and caring for her dying mother, and Aristide is destined to fulfil his promise as an award-winning vintner for one of California’s rising wine ventures.

But accepting permanent separation proves more difficult than they'd imagined.

And when Aristide learns Leilani is being pressured into a ‘dynastic’ marriage to one of the Hawaiian King’s senior advisors, he suspects bad blood running deep.

He faces a torturous choice. Reveal the true depths of Lani’s betrayal at the cost of likely lifelong rejection, or accept the match and see her lose everything she holds dear.

These are the seventh and eighth books in the thrilling Of Blood and Gold historical fiction series. If you like mysterious pasts, feisty heiresses, and silver-tongued heroes, then you’ll love Jenny Wheeler’s captivating story.