"Down by the River" by Lin Stepp

A Smoky Mountain Novel- Book 6 Just because she’s middle-aged and widowed doesn’t mean Grace Conley should settle into a retirement village like her kids suggest. Instead, she decides on a new beginning and a second adulthood, buying an old bed and breakfast in the shadow of the Smoky Mountains, against her family’s wishes and even against the annoying advice of the philandering realtor she’s been dealing with, Jack Teague While on a visit to east Tennessee, to pick up her youngest daughter at college, recently widowed Grace Conley impulsively decides to buy a beautiful old bed and breakfast nestled along the Little River in the quiet mountain town of Townsend, Tennessee. Her new plan to sell and leave her family home in Nashville and to renovate and reopen an old Victorian inn in the Smokies, simply shocks and scandalizes her family. She’d always been a homemaker, readily available to her children, hosting all the family gatherings, babysitting all the grandchildren when needed. How c