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The deeper the roots, the darker the secrets. International wine consultant Sarah McKee returns from Europe to tragic news: her dear friend and mentor, Landon Harris, is gone. Officially, it's a heart attack. Sarah doesn't believe it for a second. Landon had been desperate to reach her—frantic calls, cryptic messages, all pointing to a secret he was trying to uncover: the whereabouts of a love he lost decades ago. Now, he's silenced. When Sarah starts asking questions, Landon's smooth-talking son warns her to stay out of it. His loyal assistant is suddenly fired. And then the inquest confirms it: Landon didn't die naturally. He was murdered. With the help of a sharp-witted best friend, a local bartender with a past, and a by-the-book sheriff, Sarah digs into Landon's legacy—and into the ruins of a ghost winery that holds the truth. But someone else is hunting for that truth, too. Someone willing to kill to keep it buried. An heir is missing. A killer is watching.And time is running out.

The bottles are fake. The bodies are real.One week before Sonoma's glitziest event of the year—the Flight of Fancy Charity Auction—a man is found dead. His face destroyed. His identity erased. All that's left is a cryptic list in his pocket… and a fridge full of counterfeit wine.Wine expert Sarah McKee is called in to help identify the victim, but the deeper she digs, the stranger the case becomes. Then another man turns up dead—with the same mysterious list. This time, the murder weapon has fingerprints.They belong to Zach Sullivan, Sarah's longtime friend, who's already reeling after his father lost the family winery to a gambling scheme.Zach has motive. He has no alibi. And unless Sarah can prove otherwise, he's going down for both murders.With a strait-laced sheriff at her side and a killer hiding among the elite, Sarah uncovers a web of greed, desperation, and a wine collection worth killing for. But the counterfeiting ring is dangerous.The auction is days away.And Sarah is running out of time.

Too much of a good thing...can be murder.Moments after sampling an experimental vintage that could ruin her livelihood, wine expert Sarah McKee is overcome by vivid hallucinations—and the scientist who created it later dies. Security footage shows Sarah pushing him before fleeing the lab. Within hours, she's arrested for murder.As hidden motives surface and a missing will threatens to expose a devastating secret, Sarah races to uncover who weaponized the wine—and why.Because someone planned the perfect crime.And Sarah is meant to take the fall.