The smell of honey

Isabel Johansen, a celebrated chef who grew up in the sleepy town of Sonoma, has decided to turn her family home into a cookery school – an idyllic place for dreamers to come and learn the culinary arts. With its beautiful apple orchard, fertile gardens and beehives, the hacienda is the perfect setting for her project... and for herself.
But Isabel's carefully thought-out plan begins to unravel when war correspondent Cormac O'Neill shows up and starts digging into her family's past. He has always preferred to uncover other people's lives rather than talk about his own, but the picturesque countryside and Isabel's incredible culinary skills lead him to open his heart. However, deeply buried family secrets have a way of coming to the surface, whether you want them to or not...
Translated by Veronika Kratochvílová.