Apple Orchard

<p><i>a Sometimes you stumble across a treasure when youre looking for something else entirely.a </i><p><p>#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Susan Wiggs brings readers to the lush abundance of Sonoma County in a novel of sisters, friendship, and how memories are woven like a spell around us.<p><p>Tess Delaney makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners. People like Annelise Winther, who refuses to sell her long-gone mothers beloved necklacea &quote;despite Tesss advice. To Annelise, the jewels value is in its memories.<p><p>But Tesss own history is filled with gaps: a father she never met, a mother who spent more time traveling than with her daughter. So Tess is shocked when she discovers the grandfather she never knew is in a coma. And that she has been named in his will to inherit half of Bella Vista, a hundred-acre apple orchard in the magical Sonoma town called Archangel.<p><p>The rest is willed to Isabel Johansen. A half sister shes never heard of.<p><p>Against the rich landscape of Bella Vista, Tess begins to discover a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family, of the warm earth beneath her bare feet. A world where family comes first and the roots of history run deep. A place where falling in love is not only possible, but inevitable.<p><p>And in a season filled with new experiences, Tess begins to see the truth in something Annelise once told her: if you dont believe memories are worth more than money, then perhaps youve not made the right kind of memories.<p><p>From one of Americas most beloved writers, <i>The Apple Orchard</i> is a story of family tiesa &quote;both old and newa &quote;and of the moments that connect our hearts.<p>