Napa Author:Kate Damon Elizabeth Ashford, the beautiful, strong-willed daughter of a California vintner, longed for the day when she might escape the secluded Napa Valley and see the world - until Jean DeMille entered her life. The bold young Frenchman, drawn to the California goldfields by the promise of adventure and wealth, came to the valley with a modest fortune ... more »and a dream of establishing a wine-growing empire in this lush new land.
Together, Elizabeth and Jean founded the DeMille Vineyards, an enterprise whose phenomenal success exceeded even Jean's wildest hopes. Their marriage, though often stormy, was to result in a dynasty that would influence the course of history.
Yet the DeMille legacy of power, wealth, and fame contained the seeds of rivalry and dissent which, once sown, were destined to bear bitter fruit for generations to come...« less