The Beekeeper's Ball by Susan Wiggs
Summary: #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.
Angie's Comments: The Beekeeper’s Ball is a story about family. The love story
between Isabel and Cormac is sweet, but the book isn’t entirely sweet. When
Cormac interviews Isabel’s grandfather, readers are exposed to Isabel’s
grandfather’s memories of living in the Netherlands during the German
occupation in World War II. Secrets are exposed, but family ties are strengthened.
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