"Moving... This engrossing and hopeful story will hold readers from
start to finish."--Publishers Weekly
"Family secrets, complex characters and a glorious setting make The
Inheritance a rich, compelling read...JoAnn Ross at her best!"
--**Sherryl Woods, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sweet
Magnolias series
With a dramatic wartime love story woven through, JoAnn Ross's
long-awaited new novel is a gorgeous generational saga about the
rivalry, history and loyalty that bond sisters together**
When conflict photographer Jackson Swann dies, he leaves behind a
conflict of his own making when his three daughters, each born to a
different mother, discover that they're now responsible for the family's
Oregon vineyard--and for a family they didn't ask for.
After a successful career as a child TV star, Tess is, for the first
time, suffering from a serious identity crisis, and grieving for the
absent father she's resented all her life.
Charlotte, brought up to be a proper Southern wife, gave up her own
career to support her husband's political ambitions. On the worst day of
her life, she discovers her beloved father has died, she has two sisters
she never knew about and her husband has fallen in love with another
woman.
Natalie, daughter of Jack's longtime mistress, has always known
about her half sisters, and has dreaded the day when Tess and Charlotte
find out she's the daughter their father kept.
As the sisters reluctantly gather at the vineyard, they're soon
enchanted by the Swann family matriarch and namesake of Maison de
Madeleine wines, whose stories of bravery in WWII France and love for a
wounded American soldier will reveal the family legacy they've each
inherited and change the course of all their lives.
