num_pages: 445
description: First Series from Bestselling Author Julie Klassen!On a rise overlooking the Wiltshire countryside stands the village of Ivy Hill. Its coaching inn The Bell is its lifeblood--along with the coach lines that stop there daily bringing news mail travelers and much-needed trade.Jane Bell lives on the edge of the inn property. She had been a genteel lady until she married the charming innkeeper who promised she would never have to work in his family's inn. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances Jane finds herself The Bell's owner and worse she has three months to pay a large loan or lose the place.Feeling reluctant and ill-equipped Jane is tempted to abandon her husband's legacy and return to her former life of ease. However she soon realizes there is more at stake than her comfort. But who can she trust to help her? Her resentful mother-in-law? Her husband's brother who wanted the inn for himself? Or the handsome newcomer with secret plans of his own . . . ?With pressure mounting from the bank Jane struggles to win over naysayers and turn the place around. Can Jane bring new life to the inn and to her heart as well?
language: English
title: The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill
publisher: Bethany House Publishers