Susan Wiggs

The Beekeeper's Ball Susan Wiggs

Publisher Marketing:#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." Review Citations: Audio File 12/01/2014 pg. 30 (EAN 9781455836901, Compact Disc) Booklist 06/01/2014 pg. 49 (EAN 9780778314486, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Romantic Times 07/01/2014 pg. 78 (EAN 9780778314486, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 06/09/2014 (EAN 9780778314486, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2014 (EAN 9780778314486, Hardcover) Library Journal 07/01/2014 pg. 81 (EAN 9780778314486, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Wiggs, Susan Susan Wiggs s life is all about family, friends and fiction. She lives at the water s edge on a Puget Sound island and finds inspiration in the rhythm of the seasons, and in the emotional dramas of everyday life. She s been featured in the national media and is a popular speaker locally and nationally. She has written more than forty novels, including #1 New York Times bestsellers from her hit series The Lakeshore Chronicles. A three-time RITA(r) Award winner, her books have been translated into two dozen languages. The author is a former teacher, a Harvard graduate, and a passionate supporter of libraries and literacy. She loves hiking, biking, yoga and skiing, yet her favorite form of exercise is curling up with a good book. Please visit her at www.susanwiggs.com, and check out her Facebook page.