Anna's Legacy — Susan A. Jennings

Secrets and hidden agendas lurk below the surface of Anna and Bill's success as hoteliers in post-WWII Britain. Bill's culinary talent feeds society's elite while Anna nourishes their appetite for pampered luxury. A gender bias bank manager, a royal wedding and a communist gang almost bankrupt them. Daughter Isabelle joins Anna with innovative programs for the hotel guests but her hidden flirtatious agenda complicates a fragile mother and daughter relationship and hovers on the edge of destroying her marriage. Mr. Smyth, an experienced and skilled maître d' who charms the guests but challenges, even frightens Anna, has the darkest secret of all; a secret that is murderous, seeped with hatred and revenge that rips open Anna's heart, possibly destroying everything she holds dear.