I absolutely loved this heartwarming, beautiful love story set in a vineyard. Kari was warm and found such courage to leave her wedding and her whole life behind to find her soulmate, the generous,lost soul Marc who helped Kari and gained so much insight from her. Jane Graves is one of my favorite authors, and I love all her books and their uniqueness from each other and from the typical romances out there. She creates characters that I can't help but love, and books that are always so well-written and enjoyable to read all the way through. I won this book in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway.Kari Worthington finds herself about to marry a man of her father's choosing, and she realizes it is a huge mistake. Unable to confront her fiance and afraid she'll be bullied by her father into going through with the wedding, she flees. She drives as far away as she can get and hits a bad storm. She has an accident and ends up at the door of Marc Cordero. Marc is a single father who just dropped off his daughter at college. He is looking forward to the freedom to enjoy his single and now unencumbered life after having taken care of everyone else for the past 2 decades. Marc tries to send Kari back to Houston, but he is unable to ignore her predicament and grudgingly agrees to help her. They clash but eventually give in to their mutual attraction. Just as Kari starts to feel comfortable in Rainbow Valley, Marc is ready to leave on the adventure he's been planning for 18 years.For the first half of the book, I found this heroine somewhat annoying and immature. She does grow up as the story progresses, and I liked her by the end of the book.
