Lin Stepp 
Lost Inheritance 

It was a comedown for Emily Lamont to arrive at the small mountain gallery in Gatlinburg after running the prestigious Newman Gallery for so many years.  Still, it wasn’t as though she had many other options.  The Newmans never made a clear will leaving her the gallery, although they meant to.  With the Newmans’ only nephew inheriting their property, and the gallery, Emily felt moving to Gatlinburg to manage the Creekside Gallery her only option.  Now she simply needed to make the best of it, including banging heads daily with the man who felt his mother should have inherited the gallery instead of her.Garrison Log Homes owner, Cooper Garrison, felt bitter when the Creekside Gallery changed hands without his mother gettng an opportunity to buy it.  She’d managed the gallery since he was a boy, and now some woman, not even a relative of the Newmans, had inherited it.  Grudgingly, Cooper agrees to fix up the apartment above the gallery for the new owner, but when she arrives, she is not at all what Cooper expects.  Despite being attracted to her, problems from the past keep Cooper running from a deeper relationship.  When an unexpected event sends Emiy back to Philadelphia, Cooper is forced, at last, to examine his heart.

About the author

Dr. Lin Stepp is a New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly Best-Selling international author. A native Tennessean, she also works as both a businesswoman and an educator. Although not actively teaching now, she is still on adjunct faculty at Tusculum College where she taught research and a variety of psychology and counseling courses for eighteen years. Her business background includes over twenty-five years in marketing, sales, production art, and regional publishing.

Stepp writes engaging, heart-warming contemporary Southern fiction with a strong sense of place and has eleven published novels, each set in different locations around the Smoky Mountains. Her last novel, before Lost Inheritance (2018), was Daddy’s Girl (2017), with previous novels, including Welcome Back (2016), Saving Laurel Springs (2015), Makin’ Miracles (2015) and Down by the River (2014) published by Kensington of New York. Other earlier titles include: Second Hand Rose (2013), Delia’s Place (2012), For Six Good Reasons (2011), Tell Me About Orchard Hollow (2010), and The Foster Girls (2009). In addition, Stepp and her husband J.L. Stepp have co-authored a Smoky Mountains hiking guidebook titled The Afternoon Hiker (2014) and a Tennessee state parks guidebook Discovering Tennessee State Parks (2018). For more about Stepp’s work and to keep up with her monthly blog, ongoing appearances and signing events see: www.linstepp.com.