Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1998. Spine very faded, foxing to page edges and endpapers, secondhand wear to cover extremities.

One summer evening in 1808, Sobran Jodeau stumbles through his family's vineyard in Burgundy, filled with wine and love sorrows. As Sobran sways in a drunken swoon, an angel appears out of nowhere to catch him. Once he gets over his shock, Sobran decides that Xas, the male angel, is his guardian sent to counsel him on everything from marriage to wine production. But Xas turns out to be far more mysterious than angelic. Compelling and erotic, The Vintner?s Luck is a decidedly unorthodox love story, one that presents angels as fierce and beautiful as Milton?s, and a vision of Heaven, Hell, and the vineyards in between that is unforgettable.