Straw Hats and Old Lace. Straw Hats and Old Lace, #1

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.