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The Widow of Larkspur Inn
Christian fiction
The Widow of Larkspur Inn
Book 1 of the Gresham Chronicles series
432 pages · First published 1998
Widowed Julia Hollis arrives in the English village of Gresham with her children after financial disaster leaves the family without the secure future they once expected. She converts an abandoned coaching inn into a respectable lodging house, a risky undertaking for a Victorian woman whose social position has already fallen. The inn brings strangers, friendships, and the possibility of romance into a household focused first on survival. Lawana Blackwell opens the Gresham Chronicles with Christian historical fiction about community, resilience, and a widow discovering that rebuilding a home can also rebuild a life.
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