An aging California vintner is determined to protect her empire from a hostile family takeover and the dark secrets that could destroy everything she loves
At age seventy-four, Assaria âSariâ LeBaron is still a force to be reckoned with. For decades, she has run the Baronet Vineyards, one of Californiaâs largest and most successful wine producers, maintaining sole control even after a suspicious accident left her permanently crippled. And now, in her golden years, the formidable Sari refuses to relinquish power to her own children, a decision that has only served to increase tensions among her already emotionally damaged family members.
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But Sariâs ambitious son, Eric, is no longer willing to play a subservient role, and has begun working behind the scenes to take over the business, forming alliances within and outside the family in his effort to dethrone the unyielding matriarch. The most difficult fight of Sari LeBaronâs long and eventful life has begun; a heartbreaking struggle that will pit loved one against loved one and expose long-hidden secrets that could destroy both Sariâs business and her family.
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The LeBaron Secret is another riveting excursion into a world of privilege that Stephen Birmingham knows intimately. It is a breathtaking tale of secrets and lies, shady double-dealings, family skeletons, and the inner turmoil of the fabulously wealthy as only the bestselling author of âOur Crowdâ and The Auerbach Will could tell it.