Dear wonderful readers,

Thank you so so so much for reading my first English novel. I've been writing since I was 12, like decades ago (yeah... I'm old) and never got anything published since I was a perfectionist and my works needed research and I didn't have the means to do it back then.

I mean, how could you write about life in other countries when you never go there? I felt like a fake - that's why the only people I allowed reading my novels were my sister and a few friends whom I know would still love me no matter how weird I am in their eyes... hehehe.

Before you #coughcough Google.... Well, Google and the internet weren't a thing back then (when I started writing), I didn't even have a computer. I wrote in any piece of papers I could get my hands into. Sadly, out of maybe 100 titles I wrote for almost 20 years, 95% are gone now because my mom thought they were trash (literally) and threw them together with my old school books.

Now, thanks to the Internet God, anyone can do research for their novel and even publish it online. That's what gave me courage to now share my novels with more people.

I'm also grateful that my profession has allowed me to travel and finally I could put life into the stories I've been keeping dearly in my heart. I've been to Paris, New York, San Francisco, I've lived in Singapore, etc etc etc. Last month I even visited Colmar and see the city and the vineyard and the area myself, and met a friend who named her daughter Scotland (so I feel less guilty naming the MC Finland - apparently it was not really that weird to name your child like a country, right?), she lives in Colmar and was the one who inspired me to use Colmar as one of the settings for this novel.

This novel is going premium today, October 7, 2019 and will be locked retrospectively from chapter 177. I could have it locked earlier, like ... in chapter 100 for example, but I chose to lock it on chapter 177 because I feel like reading until chapter 100 is not enough for you to decide if this novel is worthy of your spirit stones, so I'm giving you more. I hope by the time you reach chapter 176 you are convinced that you are in for the ride! Yeay!!

Please do mind that I love throwing spoilers here and there in SEPARATE CHAPTERS to satisfy curious people who are eager to know what happen in future. For some people, knowing a bit of what will happen gives them a peace of mind that they are not investing their time, feeling, and money into a soap opera or cliches or shitty novel or simply something that is not their cup of tea. I respect that. So please, if you hate spoilers, just SKIP the chapters marked with TEASERS or SPOILERS and you'll be just fine.

If you LOVE SPOILERS, hell yeah! Go read them! Woot woot!!

The original novel is loved by many and I got in average 1000 power stones in votes every day. Of course I wish to see this English version gets the same exposure and support. If you like this novel, please vote and help this story reach more people. My biggest dream for this novel is someday to see it made into Netflix original series, for example. Wouldn't it be awesome? Anyone know anyone in Netflix? Bahahaha..

Anyway.. again, thank you for joining me on the ride. I hope this story can bring you happiness.

much love,

Vina (October 7, 2019)