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The Season: The Wrong Side of the Hill
He came back for one harvest. She asked him for more.
When Del Whitfield dies alone in the north block of his Virginia vineyard, he leaves his daughter sixty acres on the wrong side of a mountain, a bank line with ninety days of room, and a letter. It isn't addressed to her.
Noel Whitfield is twenty five. She can sell a bottle of wine to a man who only came in to use the bathroom. She cannot run a harvest, and the whole county knows it, including the wedding venue owner circling the property with a very generous number.
Beau Tillman is forty one, the best winemaker in Sonoma, and the one man Del never forgave. Twelve years ago Del ran him off that crush pad. Now a dead man's letter asks him for one season. Bring in the fruit. Get it in barrel. Then go.
He puts four rules on the tank room door. She breaks the fourth one inside a week. And when he tells her, plainly, that she is not allowed, something in her goes still that has never gone still for anyone.
She asks him to hold her to it. Out loud. In the cellar, after dark.
He is older. He was her father's right hand. He is leaving in November. And neither of them is ready for what that one request opens.
When Del Whitfield dies alone in the north block of his Virginia vineyard, he leaves his daughter sixty acres on the wrong side of a mountain, a bank line with ninety days of room, and a letter. It isn't addressed to her.
Noel Whitfield is twenty five. She can sell a bottle of wine to a man who only came in to use the bathroom. She cannot run a harvest, and the whole county knows it, including the wedding venue owner circling the property with a very generous number.
Beau Tillman is forty one, the best winemaker in Sonoma, and the one man Del never forgave. Twelve years ago Del ran him off that crush pad. Now a dead man's letter asks him for one season. Bring in the fruit. Get it in barrel. Then go.
He puts four rules on the tank room door. She breaks the fourth one inside a week. And when he tells her, plainly, that she is not allowed, something in her goes still that has never gone still for anyone.
She asks him to hold her to it. Out loud. In the cellar, after dark.
He is older. He was her father's right hand. He is leaving in November. And neither of them is ready for what that one request opens.
274 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 19, 2026
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