Champagne Toast, Murder Chaser (River Bend Vineyard Cozy Mysteries Book 4)

Successful businessman Holt Ridley doesn’t believe in curses, but when he inherits a great-aunt’s Long Island estate in early winter, tales of his family’s past tragedies begin to seem real— and threatening. Though he’s determined to sell everything and return to his life in California as quickly as possible, the stunning Scottish antiques expert hired to help him soon disrupts his plans. But she is just the touch of holiday cheer he needs. She challenges his every assumption— not only about the contents of the estate, and everything he was told about his family’s past, but about learning to love for a lifetime.

There aren’t many young ladies who’d be eager to accept a governess position with wild twin boys in a lonely castle deep in the Oxfordshire countryside, but Helena Templeton has never been much like other young ladies. She’s just settled into her new post when the boys’ father, the rakish Earl of Hawke returns home unexpectedly, half-dressed and fleeing his latest London scandal.

Lady Blythe Dunbar knows the type of man she’s expected to marry. After her oldest sister marries a Scottish man raised by the English King Edward I, and her middle sister unexpectedly marries a widower, Blythe knows her parents expect her to settle down with a more staid husband. But that’s the problem: Blythe doesn’t want to settle. Not when she can’t forget the devilish man who appears at court just often enough to break her heart.