The Beekeeper's Ball (The Bella Vista Chronicles, 2)

About this book

#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns to sun-drenched Bella Vista where the lands 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 schoola unique place for other dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. Bella Vistas rambling mission-style hacienda with its working apple orchards bountiful gardens and beehives is the idyllic venue for Isabels project…and the perfect place for her to forget the past. But Isabels carefully ordered plans begin to go awry when swaggering war-torn journalist Cormac ONeill arrives to dig up old history. Hes 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 Isabels kitchen coax him into revealing a few truths of his own.