âMoving⌠This engrossing and hopeful story will hold readers from start to finish.ââPublishers Weekly
âFamily secrets, complex characters and a glorious setting make The Inheritance a rich, compelling read...JoAnn Ross at her best!â âSherryl 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 theyâre now responsible for the familyâs Oregon vineyardâand for a family they didnât 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 sheâs 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 Jackâs longtime mistress, has always known about her half sisters, and has dreaded the day when Tess and Charlotte find out sheâs the daughter their father kept.
As the sisters reluctantly gather at the vineyard, theyâre 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.