Feminist Book Club: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

Feminist Book Club: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

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By Napa Bookmine

Date and time

Wednesday, July 24 · 6:30 - 7:30pm PDT

Location

Online

About this event

  • 1 hour

The Feminist Book Club meets monthly to discuss books exploring feminist issues. Selections for the club span literature, memoir, graphic novels, essay collections and works of nonfiction. Hosted by Jenna Sanders and Stephanie Der, the Feminist Book Club is open to people and their experiences from multiple genders and races.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

"A romp-filled and refreshingly diverse historical romance."--Buzzfeed

Paris, 1889
The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe...including Luz Alana Heith-Benzan, heiress to the Ca a Brava rum empire.

Luz Alana set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love. In the City of Lights, she intends to expand the rum business her family built over three generations, but buyers and shippers alike can't imagine doing business with a woman...never mind a woman of color. This, paired with being denied access to her inheritance unless she marries, leaves the heiress in a very precarious position.

Enter James Evanston Sinclair, Earl of Darnick, who has spent a decade looking for purpose outside of his father's dirty money and dirtier dealings. Ignoring his title, he's built a whisky brand that's his biggest--and only--passion. That is, until he's confronted with a Spanish-speaking force of nature who turns his life upside down.

From their first tempestuous meeting, Luz Alana is conflicted. Why is this titled--and infuriatingly charming--Scottish man so determined to help her?

For Evan, every day with Luz Alana makes him yearn for more than her ardent kisses or the marriage of convenience that might save them both. But Luz Alana sailed for Paris prepared to build her business and her future; what she wasn't prepared for was love finding her.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Adriana Herrera was born and raised in the Caribbean, but for the last 15 years has let her job (and her spouse) take her all over the world. She loves writing stories about people who look and sound like her people, getting unapologetic happy endings.

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Napa Bookmine has been downtown Napa's independent and used bookstore for the last eight years. With three locations, one at 964 Pearl St., one inside the Oxbow Public Market, and Main Street Bookmine in St. Helena, Napa Bookmine is dedicated to providing excellent book and gift selections, warm and helpful customer service, as well as offering a wide variety of events and book clubs that are open to the public.