Susan Wiggs

The Beekeeper's Ball


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      #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.

      The Beekeeper’s Ball

      Susan Wiggs

       www.mirabooks.co.uk

      For two beautiful ladies named Clara Louise—my mother and my granddaughter.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Part One

       Bee Sting Cake

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Part Two

       Summer Fruit with Honey Dressing

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Part Three

       Honey Lavender Lemonade

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Part Four

       Piernik

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Part Five

       Honey Butter Fried Chicken

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Part Six

       Hummingbird Cake

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Part Seven

       Vincotto

       Chapter Seventeen

       Part Eight

       The Bella Vista Signature Cocktail

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgments

       Extract

       Copyright