The Apple Orchard

Sometimes You Stumble Across A Treasure When You're Looking For Something Else Entirely. #1 New York Times 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. 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. 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. 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 Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a one hundred-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she's never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners, discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.