Sooner or later
(Book)

Sole heir to her family's once formidable fortune, Ellie Parrish Duveen divides her time between running her small restaurant and trying to take care of her beloved grandmother. The last thing she has time for is men. Dan Cassidy, formerly a New York City cop, now the owner of a run-down California winery, is also too busy for love--or so he thinks. When he walks into Ellie's bistro, a friendship is sparked that threatens to turn into a serious romance. But the attraction between them can't compete with a terrifying secret from the past that could have deadly consequences. Unknown to Ellie, her half brother Buck Duveen, ostracized from the family twenty years ago and forgotten in a New York sanitarium, has returned to California to reclaim the life that could have been his. He wants the family mansion, the fortune and privilege he was denied, and, most of all, he wants to get even with Lottie Parrish, the woman who sent him away. That includes everything she holds dear--even her granddaughter Ellie.