Valentine’s Day is just once a year, but why confine yourself to just one day. Share a book and chocolate with your significant other and make date night a memorable one.
For the basket: Scavenger Hunt Basket
Show your playful side and include written clues in a basket full of goodies to start a date night’s scavenger hunt. Hide sweet treats around the house along with little messages of love, so when your loved ones find them, they will know you are always thinking of them. Or, simply hide new HERSHEY’S KISSES Conversation Candies featuring sayings such as “XOXO” and “BE MINE” on each foil (sold exclusively at Target) around the house. Telling someone how you feel couldn’t be easier when the chocolate treats say it for you.
For the book: The Winemaker Detective: An Omnibus
One of my favorite series, the Winemaker Detective Mysteries is set in France and takes readers to the wine country. You learn about wine and a little bit of French history. And best of all, the protagonists. master winemaker Benjamin Cooker and his sidekick Virgile Lanssien are lovable and relatable.
Description
Haven’t yet discovered the “addictive” Winemaker Detective series? Here’s your chance with the first three mysteries. Master winemaker Benjamin Cooker and his sidekick Virgile Lanssien solve mysteries in French wine country with a dose of Epicurean enjoyment of fine food and beverage. Each story is a homage to wine and winemakers as well as a mystery. In Treachery in Bordeaux, barrels at the prestigious grand cru Moniales Haut-Brion wine estate in Bordeaux have been contaminated. Is it negligence or sabotage? In Grand Cru Heist, Benjamin Cooker’s world gets turned upside down one night in Paris. He retreats to the region around Tours to recover. He and his assistant Virgile turn PI to solve two murders and very particular heist. In Nightmare in Burgundy, a dream wine tasting trip to Burgundy that turns into a troubling nightmare when Cooker and his assistant stumble upon a mystery revolving around messages from another era. This made-for-TV series is “difficult to forget and oddly addictive” (ForeWord Reviews).
