Russell Stuart Irwin

Poyama Russell Stuart Irwin

Set in the mid 19th century, this is an American novel for the rugged individualist and the vineyard romantic. Poyama is a Chilean immigrant and a winemaker. He brought to the United States an unrivaled appetite for hard work, a legacy of international winemaking mastery and a weakness - his love of horses. Even a greater love, the love of his life, is afforded no entry through the bulwark of such preoccupations. But there is trouble in the vineyard, and calamity approaches upon thundering hooves in fulfillment of a promise containing the power of new beginnings.