Walking through the luscious Napa harvest in the fall of 1982, agricultural student Kate Bauer is inspired to grow grapes, and charismatic business major Sydney Barrett might just be the perfect person to make that dream come true. If only Kate knew what to do with her unexpected attraction to Sydney.

On the threshold of the AIDS pandemic, Kate is appalled by her father's homophobia toward her closeted uncle, Louie. When Uncle Louie dies, he leaves his potato farm on Long Island to Kate. Soon Kate and Sydney are planting thousands of baby vines, even as the unspoken desire between them grows.

As the vineyard thrives, Sydney caves to family pressure and heads to Paris for a once in-a-lifetime banking apprenticeship, leaving Kate to struggle with the feelings for Sydney that never wane. Their possibility for a shared harvest grows faint until Sydney returns, and a threat to the vineyard and their dreams forces them to confront their unresolved feelings.

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A Virginia native, Jacqueline Fein-Zachary is most proud of her women's rights activism in Connecticut and her professional life as a French and Spanish teacher. When she met the love of her life, Valerie, they traveled together to France, Italy, England, Israel, Greece, and South Africa. Most wonderful of all, together they helped win same-sex marriage rights in Massachusetts. Jackie and Valerie live in Boston and on Cape Cod. Jackie persists as a vegan foodie and activist, helping to save the planet and promote a saner, kinder world.