What the Inn Remembers
(2026)(The eighth book in the Mountainwood Mystery series)
A novel by Sarah Lundin
All inns offer a bed for the night. The Mountainwood Inn offers a way to disappear.
Innkeeper Elsie Harper has spent years running the Mountainwood Inn exactly the way her late great-aunt Ginny taught her: hot coffee, quiet rooms, and no questions asked. So when a guarded stranger checks in asking only for a locked door, Elsie doesn't pry — until her border collie, Murphy, refuses to leave the woman's side, and a state detective shows up within the hour asking pointed questions about a man who turned up dead two hours south.
The woman calls herself Karen. It isn't her real name, and it isn't the only one she's used. Two decades ago, she vanished from a marriage no one was supposed to survive leaving — and now her husband has found her.
As the danger closes in on the inn, Elsie and her partner, Tom, race to piece together a twenty-year-old crime before it repeats itself on their own doorstep. But Karen isn't the only one with secrets buried at Mountainwood. Ginny left behind more than an inn — she left a promise, and Elsie is only just beginning to understand what she inherited along with it.
The eighth book in the beloved Mountainwood Mysteries series, What the Inn Remembers is a story about the true meaning of safety — and how far the people we love will go to protect it.
Genre: Mystery
Innkeeper Elsie Harper has spent years running the Mountainwood Inn exactly the way her late great-aunt Ginny taught her: hot coffee, quiet rooms, and no questions asked. So when a guarded stranger checks in asking only for a locked door, Elsie doesn't pry — until her border collie, Murphy, refuses to leave the woman's side, and a state detective shows up within the hour asking pointed questions about a man who turned up dead two hours south.
The woman calls herself Karen. It isn't her real name, and it isn't the only one she's used. Two decades ago, she vanished from a marriage no one was supposed to survive leaving — and now her husband has found her.
As the danger closes in on the inn, Elsie and her partner, Tom, race to piece together a twenty-year-old crime before it repeats itself on their own doorstep. But Karen isn't the only one with secrets buried at Mountainwood. Ginny left behind more than an inn — she left a promise, and Elsie is only just beginning to understand what she inherited along with it.
The eighth book in the beloved Mountainwood Mysteries series, What the Inn Remembers is a story about the true meaning of safety — and how far the people we love will go to protect it.
Genre: Mystery