I enjoyed this book. Characters were well drawn. I liked the motivations behind character actions that were revealed further into the book.

I received an ARC copy from netgalley for my honest review,  so thank you netgalley and publishers for offering me this book! ♡
This is a story is about  Alex Morton, He is a runner for the Crown. He stays at an inn. In this run down inn he meets Johanna Langley, Who is the innkeeper's daughter.
Johanna helps to run the inn with her mother and her younger brother. They are barely hanging on and struggle to pay the rent each month which keeps her stressed out. She knows if they cannot pay the rent, they will be sent to the work camp.
Throughout the Innkeeper's Daughter people are not what they appear to be. The book is  well written and keeps you guessing. The characters are wonderfully diverse.
This was my first book by this author,  I enjoyed it for the most part. It was fast paced and just alltogether an easy read. ♡ I give this book a 3.5 star rating!

In The Innkeeper's Daughter, Alex Morton is a runner for the Crown. He is sent to Dover to find a traitor. He is told to stay in an inn. In this run down inn he meets Johanna Langley. She is the innkeeper's daughter and she is lovely. Unfortunately, Alex is undercover and on an assignment. But the more he gets to know Johanna the more he regrets not being able to allow himself to love Johanna.

Johanna helps to run the inn with her mother and her young brother. They are barely holding it together and struggle to pay the rent each month. It causes her great worry. She does all types of jobs to earn money just to keep the inn going. She knows if they cannot pay the rent, they will be sent to the work camp. The inn has all types of odd characters including Mr. Nutbrown who can only talk via his puppet and Mr. Quail and his band that have no talent. What Johanna does not know is the Alex and Mr. Quail are more than they appear. Johanna begins to have strong feeling for Alex but she does not know much about him. When Alex is wrongly accused of being a traitor and his jailed and beaten, her heart breaks for the pain he endures. Alex does so all for his assignment. Alex has been ordered to become betrothed to the Viscount's daughter. But will following orders mean he loses the one thing he cannot live without?

Throughout the Innkeeper's Daughter people are not what they appear to be. The book is so well written and it keeps you guessing. The characters are wonderfully diverse. From a peg legged crooked sailor to a dandy deserter, you never know where the story is going and certainly not how it will end!

Pretending to be someone else, even to uncover a plot, is the last thing Alexander Moore wishes to do. He takes up residence in a crumbling inn, and fights to keep from falling for the lovely innkeeper's daughter.

It was refreshing to read about the time period that was not debutants and balls. Alex's character was intriguing, and I enjoyed seeing him try to maneuver his way through a place he'd grown up, pretending to be a different person. He had misgivings about what he was doing, and it was interesting to see him grow as a character.

I'd hoped to like Joanna, but to be honest, I found her to be rather boring. She was not fun and I didn't see much growth in her character. The rest of the supporting characters were fine in their places, although several were tedious, to say the least.

Overall, it was a nice story, though it did drag in the middle some. I would recommend this to readers who enjoy a Christian historical romance with more emphasis on mystery and suspense.

Joanna is the dutiful daughter struggling to make her family's rundown inn make money. Alex is a Bow Street Runner who stays at the Inn will investigating and trying to find a traitor. We journey with Joanna and Alex as she tries to save her inn and he tries to find the traitor.
I liked the familial relationships between Joanna and her mom and brother. And Mr. Nutbrown grew on me. By the end of the book I was wishing for more of his story.
I wish the mystery had taken a bigger role in the plot. The conclusion to the mystery was wrapped up very quickly. The conclusion of the book wrapped up well but the mystery seemed a little disjointed.
I really liked Griep's previous novel, <I> The Captive Heart </I> but this didn't reach those same standards. However, regency fans will find much to enjoy here.

First off, isn’t the cover simply gorgeous? It’s one of the reasons why I wanted to read this book. That and I love love loved Michelle Griep’s book, A Captive Heart, and wanted to read another story crafted by her. While A Captive Heart still sits on my favorites shelf, The Innkeeper’s Daughter has its own merits as well. The book flowed at a good pace, the intrigue pushing it along. I also liked the character Mr. Nutbrown and his puppet. Very unique characters indeed! The romance though, had me rolling my eyes a bit—and I love a good romance book! But some of it was too cliche and not developed enough. A solid 3.5 stars.