#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns to
sun-drenched Bella Vista, where the land's bounty yields a rich
harvest...and family secrets that have long been buried.
Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy Sonoma town
of Archangel, is transforming her childhood home into a destination
cooking school--a unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the
culinary arts. Bella Vista's rambling mission-style hacienda, with its
working apple orchards, bountiful gardens and beehives, is the idyllic
venue for Isabel's project...and the perfect place for her to forget the
past.
But Isabel's carefully ordered plans begin to go awry when swaggering,
war-torn journalist Cormac O'Neill arrives to dig up old history. He's
always been better at exposing the lives of others than showing his own
closely guarded heart, but the pleasures of small-town life and the
searing sensuality of Isabel's kitchen coax him into revealing a few
truths of his own.
The dreamy sweetness of summer is the perfect time of year for a grand
family wedding and the enchanting Beekeeper's Ball, bringing emotions to
a head in a story where the past and present collide to create an
unexpected new future.
From "one of the best observers of stories of the heart" (Salem
Statesman-Journal), The Beekeeper's Ball is an exquisite and richly
imagined novel of the secrets that keep us from finding our way, the
ties binding us to family and home, and the indelible imprint love can
make on the human heart.
