Susan Wiggs

The Apple Orchard Susan Wiggs

?Sometimes you stumble across a treasure when you?re looking for something else entirely.?

#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs brings listeners to the lush abundance of Sonoma County in a novel of sisters, friendship and how memories are woven like a spell around us.

Tess Delaney makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners. People like Annelise Winther, who refuses to sell her long-gone mother?s beloved necklace?despite Tess?s advice. To Annelise, the jewel?s value is in its memories.

But Tess?s 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.

The rest is willed to Isabel Johansen. A half sister she?s never heard of.

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.

And in a season filled with new experiences, Tess begins to see the truth in something Annelise once told her: if you don?t believe memories are worth more than money, then perhaps you?ve not made the right kind of memories.

From one of America?s most beloved writers, The Apple Orchard is a story of family ties?both old and new?and of the moments that connect our hearts.