Straw Hats and Old Lace
Straw Hats and Old Lace Book One
Her heart won’t let her hate him.
When Lacey unexpectedly inherits the Monterossa family mansion from her grandmother, she and 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 is a series of seven contemporary Christian romance novellas with a touch of mystery.
Jill's Notes
- I love the idea of big, old houses filled with secrets and mysteries.
- There is much more romance than mystery in this series.
- Second chance at romance trope.
- I looked at dozens of tea rooms on the internet in the name of research. Mostly it was a fun diversion. I’ve only gone to a tea room once in my life, and I would like to go again.
