It all starts with a murder…
When Lacey unexpectedly inherits the Monterossa family mansion from her grandmother, she and her friend Daisy turn it into a tea room and inn. Two months after opening the inn, an older gentleman guest is found murdered in his guestroom.
The same day Max Castleton is murdered, Lacey's high school sweetheart returns to town after breaking her heart at graduation. Heath is a beautiful, broken ex-baseball player, and while she wants to hate him, her heart remembers years of friendship and can't quite close the door on him.
The murder and the need to raise funds for the inn bring the pair together, along with Lacey's friends, members of the Straw Hats and Old Lace club Lacey founded in high school, a group of ladies who long for beauty, peace, and romance in their lives, a club Heath has never understood.
But only if the pair leaves the past and moves into the present can the inn succeed and a murderer be brought to justice.
Straw Hats and Old Lace is book one of the contemporary Christian romance and mystery series of novellas by the same name.
Other books by Jill Penrod
Jill Penrod wrote her first novel in high school. It was a space opera (she watched Star Wars A LOT), and it was not great literature. But she persevered, graduating college with top honors in writing. Since then, she’s published more than thirty novels. She now has six series available in several genres, including Christian teen romance, sweet romance, and Christian fantasy stories. None of them are space operas.
Jill lives in Kentucky with her husband and college-aged son. She has three other adult children out there doing adult things like work and marriage. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys crafts and photography and spoils her long-haired Chihuahua Sparrow. Recently she fulfilled her dream of moving to the country, although it has yet to be seen if this city mouse can become a country mouse or not.
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