The Champagne Crush
Caroline O’ Connell
(Les Femmes Series)
Publication date: September 16th 2025
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
For fans of The Paradise Problem, a slow-burn romance about a socialite in over her head in a high-stakes job promoting a new sparkling wine with a difficult boss who wants to see her fail—despite the electric sparks flying between them.
Catherine Reynolds has enjoyed a life of luxury, but her diplomat parents have cut her off financially, leaving her flat broke. She is determined to turn things around and gain her independence—so, when an old family friend offers her a lifeline as a PR consultant for his sparkling wine company, she jumps at the chance. But working with Chris McDermott, the company’s sexy, stubborn president, is anything but easy.
A purist at heart, Chris clashes with Catherine’s glitzy marketing flair; still, the chemistry between them is undeniable. As they travel from New York to Napa, Paris, and the Champagne region of France, their partnership blossoms amid high-stakes industry rivalries and a launch that could make or break them.
When sabotage threatens to shatter their dreams, Catherine must dig deep to prove her worth. With the dazzling unveiling of their new sparkling wine in Bordeaux in jeopardy, will she and Chris overcome the challenges of the past and present to secure their future—and find love in the process?
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Now that Catherine's been cut off by her parents from her trust fund, she's miffed to realize she has to take the job offer Chris offered her with his sparkling wine company. She doesn't really want to work with the man who obviously looks down on her. But the longer they work together, the more they start to see past each other's walls, and soon they're falling in love. Everything's going great until Chris falls back on his old patterns of thinking and jumps to conclusions, perhaps putting an end to the relationship they had been building.
This is a lighthearted debut novel. I was really into all the wine details, and the jetsetting between Napa and France. It's just the romance portion that fell really flat for me. The closed door scenes didn't help matters, but I think the real problem was the two leads just had no chemistry. Chris was stoic and didn't express strong feelings at all. I never felt the passion he supposedly had for Catherine, which just made the romance fall even flatter. The real strength of this novel, while not the romance unfortunately, is the the setting, the flowing prose, and the light mystery.
CAROLINE O’CONNELL has written five travel guides and numerous travel articles for magazines, newspapers, and websites. Her Romance In Paris guide has won widespread praise: “There is no better person to guide you through Paris than Caroline” — Peter Greenberg, the Travel Detective, radio host, and Travel Editor on CBS-TV. And Library Journal raved — “Reading this breezy but informative guide to Paris is like having a series of conversations with a well-traveled friend…”
Her debut novel, THE CHAMPAGNE CRUSH: A Romance Novel (Spark Press), is due out on September 16, 2025.
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