Enjoy the intriguing history of making Champagne while reading Madame Pommery, a superb novel about Madame Jeanne Alexandrine Pommery, a woman from Reims, France who in 1848 wanted a certain taste in Champagne that no one had come up with yet. She did what any smart, determined woman would do: she created it.

In The Lost Wife, Sarah Brinton is a fictional character based on Sarah Wakefield, a white woman taken captive in the 1862 US-Dakota War.