#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 enchanting 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 … 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.
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an excellent author and great story line
I loved this book!
I love Susan Wiggs books. I always look forward to her new reads. Been read her books for many years and will continue.
I absolutely loved the story
A sequel to “The Apple Orchard”, this was a great story. I have enjoyed every Susan Wiggs novel that I have read.
It was a book that kept my interest
The BeeKeepers Ball starts out telling of Magnus, as a young boy living under German occupation,
Magnus is one of many main characters in this book, Along with Uncle Sweet, [ not his real uncle] and his daughter Eva. How they escaped to America, started a. family, Magnus helped many people to safety, Annelise wore the Star of David because she was Jewish and was captured when creating a diversion for Magnus. Needless to say, this ends happily with the marriage of Magnus. Other characters:
Isabel Isabel Johnson chef]. and Cormac O’Neil photographer,who was in Sonoma to write Magnus story. I couldn’t put it down, so I will let the reader make their own conclusions.