Julia Amante
Grand Central / Hachette
October 2011/ ISBN 978-0-446-58163-9
Fiction / Contemporary / Women
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Reviewed
by Elaine Broome
Life’s
funny sometimes. Just when you think you finally have it all figured
out, you discover that, well, you don’t! Just as you’re
about to zig, fate steps in and you unexpectedly zag. In Julia Amante’s
Say You’ll Be Mine, Isabel Gallegos is about to zag…big
time. Isabel, the very in-control owner of Gallegos Winery, has
a plan…a well-thought out, sure-to-be-successful plan. She’ll
sell the winery that has consumed her, say goodbye to her high stress
life and her high maintenance ex-husband, and retire to a cottage
at the beach. Finally, she will have the life she has always wanted.
She can just about reach out and touch that dream when disaster
strikes. Isabel learns that her closest cousin has died unexpectedly
and left three children for Isabel to raise. Three children. In
Argentina. This was not in the plan.
Isabel travels
to Argentina along with her not-so-high-maintenance-after-all ex,
determined to somehow find someone else to care for her nieces and
nephew. What would she do with three grief-stricken children? Besides,
the children’s Uncle Ramiro actually wants custody of them.
Ramiro and Isabel decide that she will take the children with her
temporarily, and then return them to their uncle and their country.
Oh, Isabel. Here comes fate, about to step in again. What will these
children do to her well-ordered life? Can she really walk away from
the winery with all its memories? And this dream life…does
the dream still look the same?
Say You’ll
Be Mine is just a lovely book. It will make you wonder about
the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of a life filled more with
adventure than with plans. Join Isabel on her journey, enjoy your
visit to wine country and Argentina…and remember. Never pass
up the chance to zag!
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