the Golden Hour Club: Four women. One coastal estate. A final toast to secrets that kept them apart.

A MAJOR NEW NOVEL FROM MARGOT RHODES.From the author of The Golden Hour Club: After a life-altering diagnosis, pioneer vintner Margot Vance gathers three friends from different stages of her life to spend an unforgettable harvest weekend in Napa Valley.Margot Vance's life seems picture-perfect. She's the legendary founder of Malmsbury Estate and has spent thirty years crafting some of California's most prestigious Reserve vintages. But behind the sun-drenched vineyards and flawless reputation, Margot is hiding a devastating secret: her body is betraying her with the early signs of Parkinson's disease, and her time at the helm is rapidly running out. The foundational lie of her career-a secret legal compromise that funded her initial startup-grows heavier by the day.So Margot decides to organize a high-stakes reunion: inviting the three women who shared her youth and the tragic graduation night that shattered their friendship thirty years ago. She promises to sign her multi-million-dollar empire over to them by Sunday night, but only if they finally unwrap the truth behind the secret funding that built the winery.However, the weekend doesn't turn out to be a quiet walk down memory lane.Celia Thorne, Margot's friend from their college years, arrives in high-society armor while her gilded San Francisco life unravels under the spotlight of an explosive federal indictment involving her husband. Meanwhile, Dr. Rayna Patel, the brilliant pediatric surgeon, is secretly harboring a crippling breakdown that caused her hands to freeze mid-incision, forcing her to abandon her operating room. And then there's Tess Clarke, the bohemian landscape photographer whose fiercely independent, free-spirited lifestyle masks a crushing financial ruin and a fear of being left behind.When a sudden late-summer thunderstorm traps the women inside the estate, decades of buried resentment, unspoken panic, and hidden betrayals spill out like crushed wine.The Golden Hour Club is a surprising and captivating story about friendship, legacy, and self-discovery set in the heart of Napa Valley. It will be a weekend like no other.