It sounds like the premise of a movie or a novel: A couple ditches corporate life and buys and restores an inn on the coast of Maine. In actuality, it’s the real life story of 1986 Boston College grad Teri Anderholm and her husband Jeff, the former innkeepers of Bass Cottage Inn in Bar Harbor, Maine. Anderholm chronicles the highs and lows of their two decades of innkeeping in Inn Mates: An Innkeeper’s Memoir (Maine Authors Publishing, 2024). Inn Mates follows the couple as they restore the dilapidated, four-story Victorian inn into a grand place, hosting a parade of guests who teach them lessons of gratitude, humility, love, and laughter. Inn Mates was named a finalist in the category of Nonfiction: Creative in the American Book Fest’s 2024 International Book Awards. Watch an interview with Teri Anderholm on News Center Maine.