The Inheritance: A Novel

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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 Rosss brilliant 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 theyre now responsible for the familys Oregon vineyardand for a family they didnt 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 shes resented all her life. Charlotte brought up to be a proper Southern wife gave up her own career to support her husbands 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 Jacks longtime mistress has always known about her half sisters and has dreaded the day when Tess and Charlotte find out shes the daughter their father kept. As the sisters reluctantly gather at the vineyard theyre 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 theyve each inherited and change the course of all their lives.