La Soif

A broken engagement and a crumbling vineyard in Provence shouldn't feel like freedom—but for Chicago sommelier Sylvie Kendall, they do. Her mysterious great-uncle left her an estate called Les Ombres, along with its brooding caretaker, Lucien Marchand, who wants her gone. But behind the rotting walls and failed harvests lies a hidden world of desire, philosophy, and secrets that will unravel everything Sylvie thought she knew about pleasure, inheritance, and the dangerous territory between wanting and belonging.