"Master of the Vineyard" is a classic romantic novel with a little twist. It tells the story of Rosemary Starr, a twenty-five-year-old orphan who has spent her whole life waiting for her grandmother and aunt. Her only friend is Alden Marsh, a thirty-year-old vineyard owner, and part-time school teacher. With time, intimacy is formed between them, though Rosemary always feels socially inferior. It is an absorbing story of a lonely man and woman being drawn together and apart again and again.