Love, loss, and a smoky red...When Audrey Montgomery's carefully planned life collides with the self-destructive path Tyson Dawes is on, neither of them can predict what will happen next. Audrey is a diligent and self-reliant culinary student at Portland's prestigious Cordon Bleu. She has a clear picture of her future in mind, and it allows little room for the steely-eyed and tormented young man she bumps into by chance while wine tasting with friends. Tyson Dawes had a perfect childhood, raised among the vines in Oregon's Willamette Valley. But even the most idyllic of upbringings couldn't have prepared him for what he would face as a Marine. He returns to his childhood home angry and haunted by the storms of what he has faced and by those he has lost. Do opposites truly attract? Can the lure of Audrey's apparent clarity and innocence offer Tyson hope in the face of his emptiness?