Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Fiction
  3. Contemporary fiction

Read and listen for free for 42 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
3.0(1)

The Inheritance

“Moving… This engrossing and hopeful story will hold readers from start to finish.”—Publishers Weekly

“Family secrets, complex characters and a glorious setting make The Inheritance a rich, compelling read...JoAnn Ross at her best!” —Sherryl Woods, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sweet Magnolias series

With a dramatic wartime love story woven through, JoAnn Ross's long-awaited new novel is a gorgeous generational saga about the rivalry, history and loyalty that bond sisters together

When conflict photographer Jackson Swann dies, he leaves behind a conflict of his own making when his three daughters, each born to a different mother, discover that they’re now responsible for the family’s Oregon vineyard—and for a family they didn’t ask for.

After a successful career as a child TV star, Tess is, for the first time, suffering from a serious identity crisis, and grieving for the absent father she’s resented all her life.

Charlotte, brought up to be a proper Southern wife, gave up her own career to support her husband's political ambitions. On the worst day of her life, she discovers her beloved father has died, she has two sisters she never knew about and her husband has fallen in love with another woman.

Natalie, daughter of Jack’s longtime mistress, has always known about her half sisters, and has dreaded the day when Tess and Charlotte find out she’s the daughter their father kept.

As the sisters reluctantly gather at the vineyard, they’re soon enchanted by the Swann family matriarch and namesake of Maison de Madeleine wines, whose stories of bravery in WWII France and love for a wounded American soldier will reveal the family legacy they've each inherited and change the course of all their lives.


Author:

  • JoAnn Ross

Narrator:

  • Ann Marie Gideon

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 11 h 28 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Contemporary fiction
  • Historic and folklore novels
  • Historic novels
  • War novels
  • WWII fiction

More by JoAnn Ross

Skip the list
  1. Forever in Honeymoon Harbor

    JoAnn Ross

    audiobook
  2. Second Chance Spring

    JoAnn Ross

    audiobook
  3. Summer on Mirror Lake

    JoAnn Ross

    audiobook
  4. Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane

    JoAnn Ross

    audiobook
  5. Herons Landing

    JoAnn Ross

    audiobook
  6. Silver Bells

    Fern Michaels, JoAnn Ross, Mary Burton, Judy Duarte

    audiobook
  7. Impulse

    JoAnn Ross

    book
  8. Moonshell Beach

    JoAnn Ross

    audiobook
  9. No Safe Place

    JoAnn Ross

    book
  10. Far Harbor

    JoAnn Ross

    book
  11. Homeplace

    JoAnn Ross

    book

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. A Map of Betrayal

    Ha Jin

    audiobook
  2. The Magic of Ordinary Days

    Ann Howard Creel

    audiobook
  3. Secrets She Kept

    Cathy Gohlke

    audiobook
  4. Orphan Train Escape

    Rachel Wesson

    audiobook
  5. Crooked Heart : A Novel

    Lissa Evans

    audiobook
  6. Solitaire

    Jane Thynne

    audiobook
  7. The Secrets She Carried

    Barbara Davis

    audiobook
  8. The Fortunate Ones : A Novel

    Ellen Umansky

    audiobook
  9. Katerina

    James Frey

    audiobookbook
  10. The English Agent

    Clare Harvey

    audiobookbook
  11. My Mother's Secret

    J. L. Witterick

    audiobook
  12. Letters From Paris

    Juliet Blackwell

    audiobook

  • 21 books

    JoAnn Ross

    New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author JoAnn Ross has been published in twenty-six countries. A member of the Romance Writers of America’s Honor Roll of bestselling authors, she’s won several awards, including RT Book Reviews’ Career Achievement Awards in both category romance and contemporary single title. In addition, she received RWA’s national service award and was named RWA Pro-Mentor of the Year. JoAnn lives with her high school sweetheart, whom she married twice, in her beloved Pacific Northwest.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms · Imprint ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5