

Isabel is a workaholic and a bit of a hermit. Isabel is also living out her dream of opening a cooking school in their home. Sisters Tess and Isabel are planning Tess' wedding at the family estate called Bella Vista. Susan Wiggs' gorgeous descriptions of Sonoma County make me want to jump inside her books.THE BEEKEEPER'S BALL picks up where the first book left off. It's wonderful to visit Archangel again! I fell in love with the charming fictional town in the first book, THE APPLE ORCHARD. 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.įrom '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.įor fans of Santa Montefiore, Patricia Scanlan and Cathy Kelly. 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. 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.īut Isabel's carefully ordered plans begin to go awry when swaggering, war-torn journalist Cormac O'Neill arrives to dig up old history. 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. #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.
