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When photojournalist Sophie Medina returns to London from an overseas assignment, she discovers that her husband Nick, a geologist and covert CIA operative, has been abducted. Three months later she is shocked when a friend in the British government says Nick was spotted in Moscow and is now not only a suspect in his boss’s murder, but also potentially involved in illicit Russian oil deals. With her every move now closely watched Sophie moves home to Washington, D.C. where she is drawn deeper into Nick’s shadowy world.
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When Lucie Montgomery finds the body of prominent wine merchant Paul Noble hanging from a beam in his art studio not far from her Virginia vineyard, she is unwittingly dragged into Noble's murky past.
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When Lucie Montgomery meets up with glamorous Rebecca Natale, an old college friend, during Washington, D.C.’s cherry blossom season, she doesn’t suspect a set-up. Soon Rebecca is missing -- along with an antique silver wine cooler looted when British troops burned the White House during the War of 1812. As Lucie’s relationship with her winemaker Quinn Santori reaches a turning point, she tries to uncover the truth behind whether Rebecca’s disappearance was suicide, murder—or an elaborate hoax to disappear.

When a tornado rips through Montgomery Estate Vineyard, it not only destroys some of Lucie Montgomery's newest grapevines, but also unearths a grave in an abandoned field. The discovery sets tongues wagging in the small town of Atoka, Virginia, especially after Lucie learns the Loudoun County Sheriff's Department believes the odds are good someone in her family is responsible. But Lucie has more to worry about than family secrets buried with the victim in her vineyard.
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When Valerie Beauvais, author of a book on Thomas Jefferson's travels through the wine regions of France and Italy, turns up dead near Lucie Montgomery's Virginia vineyard, Lucie is certain Valerie's murder has something to do with a 200-year-old bottle of Bordeaux Jefferson may once have purchased for his good friend George Washington. Though Lucie plans to auction off the valuable bottle at a charity auction, others have different plans for what’s becoming a wine to die for.
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American journalist Claire Brennan travels to Moscow in the waning days of Communist rule to discover that her colleague and ex-lover Ian Kendall has died in a local hospital. As she pieces together the final weeks of his life in Russia, Claire uncovers business dealings as multi-layered as a set of matrushka dolls -- and cannot escape a growing feeling she is searching for a murderer who may now be stalking her.