Young Vines

<p>     Dr. Ryan Lockwood is known as a professor who deeply cares for his students. Having grown up as an orphan he now serves as a literature professor at Pepperdine University his old alma mater. Located in Malibu California Pepperdine holds some of his most treasured memories. It's where he dated and married his first love and it's where he met his two best friends Clayton "Finn" Fincannon (<em>The Mason Jar</em>) and Brian "Oz" Bailey (<em>Alabama Irish</em>). </p><p>     Now Ryan's on track to become the department Chair a position he’s dreamed of since graduate school. At just thirty–two years old life couldn't be better. But when his wife passes away unexpectedly and his grandmother follows soon after Ryan falls into a deep depression. </p><p>     His grandmother leaves him her vineyard in Tennessee where Ryan spent his childhood summers. Since the estate hosts sell-out jazz concerts and the best wine in the southeast Ryan plans to sell the estate to the highest bidder. But when he visits the vineyard he meets Rachel Young the twenty–five year old daughter of the vine dresser. Rachel is good–sensed hard–working and she's one of the prettiest women Ryan’s ever encountered.</p><p>     Ryan has sworn to never fall in love again the vineyard is auctioned at three times it's value and Pepperdine offers him his dream. Now Ryan must make a decision: Return to his career and friends in California or begin a new chapter in life with a young love in Tennessee.</p><p>     A love story set among the beaches of Malibu and the lakes and pastures of Tennessee <em>Young Vines</em> teaches us that sometimes we must let go of old dreams to embrace new ones.</p>