Boar's Head Inn

By JM Dragon

The end of a long-time relationship prompted a redefinition of American Darcy Grainger’s life. She took the trip of a lifetime to the United Kingdom. On a walk in the Lake District. She stumbles across the Boar’s Head Inn. Finding the characters who work there engaging, and one in particular, barmaid Tempest, fascinating. Could this simple inn in a village called Massem be just what she needs to get her life back on track? Or is the village and the people there just too good to be true?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Affinity Ebook Press NZ Ltd
• Release date: Oct 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781990049934

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Boar’s Head Inn

JM Dragon

2022

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The end of a long-time relationship prompted a redefinition of American Darcy Grainger’s life. She took the trip of a lifetime to the United Kingdom. On a walk in the Lake District. She stumbles across the Boar’s Head Inn. Finding the characters who work there engaging, and one in particular, barmaid Tempest, fascinating. Could this simple inn in a village called Massem be just what she needs to get her life back on track? Or is the village and the people there just too good to be true?

Boar’s Head Inn

© 2007 by JM Dragon

Affinity E-Book Press NZ LTD.

Canterbury, New Zealand

First Edition

ISBN: 978-1-99-004993-4 (EPUB)

ISBN: 978-1-99-004994-1 (PDF)

ISBN: 978-1-99-004995-8 (KINDLE)

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Editor: Angela Koenig

Proof Editor: Alexis Smith

Cover Design: Irish Dragon Designs

Production Design: Affinity Publication Services

Acknowledgments

Thank you, to my late friend Mel, who constantly encouraged me to release stories long forgotten in my archive.

Special thanks to Angie, my editor, who I know loves her work and it shows. Alexis, I’m indebted for your eagle eye observations.

Nancy, thanks for the brilliant cover.

Dedication

For those who have an open mind.

Also by JM Dragon

Single Stories

Oh Charley

The Black Knight and the Lady

My Dear Vet

Wanted for Christmas

Dreams in a Jar

At Last

The Tempest

Jeager’s

Breaking the Silence

The Promise

Do Dreams Come True?

The One

Letting Go

Circus

Falling into Fate

The Fix-it Girl

In Name Only

Death is Only the Beginning

Lonely Angel

Echo’s Crusade

A Window in Time

Waterfalls, Rainbows, and Secrets

The Dragon’s Halloween Collection

Incantations – A Collaboration

Affinity’s Christmas Collection 2010

Christmas Collection 2011

Christmas Collection 2012

Christmas Collection 2014

Series

Define Destiny Series

Haunting Shadows

In Pursuit of Dreams

Actions and Consequences

All Our Tomorrows

Two Steps Forward One Back

A World of Change

When Hell Meets Heaven Series

When Hell Meets Heaven - 1

Fatal Hesitation - 2

JM Dragon & Erin O’Reilly Collaborations

Racing for Love

Against All Odds

Take Me as I am

Echoes of the Past- WHMH 3

The End Game- WHMH 4

Requiem – WHMH 5

Earthbound

New Beginnings

Atonement

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Epilogue

About the Author

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Prologue

Hello, readers. I want to relate a tale that I stumbled across on one of my walks in the Lake District. They say you can have the strangest conversations and experiences in the most unusual places. Very true in my case.

I met a fellow traveler, an older American woman, I