Turning her home into a cooking school for up-and-coming culinary students seems like the perfect way for successful chef Isabel Johnson to put the past behind her, but a war-torn journalist with a knack for making people talk is about to put Isabel to the ultimate test. With the Beekeeper's Ball and a wedding on the horizon, journalist Cormac O'Neill soon falls under the spell of a summer far more magical and revealing than he anticipated.

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.

John Chapman is better known as Johnny Appleseed, but who was he, really? Did he really wear a pan on his head as a hat and travel the United States planting apple seeds? This unique biography explores the legend and the real man. The comic book-style illustrations help young people get a true flavor for what life might have been like for this memorable legendary figure.