Rescuing Ladybugs

By Diane Lil Adams

Deal Ends: 2025-11-21

Maura's parents got a divorce when she was eight and she hasn't seen or spoken to her dad for seventeen years. She's shocked when she inherits his parents' cabin in the mountains and persuades her mother that they should visit before she lists the property for sale. Jason is a carpenter by trade, but agrees to help a friend who owns a pest control company. Unlike her mother, Maura likes the ladybugs and convinces Jason to give them a reprieve. By time they part, each is looking for an excuse to contact the other. When Maura's mom see her daughter falling in love with a mountain man, as she once did, she returns to Missouri alone. Then Maura's father and his second family turn up, needing a place to stay. The story he tells doesn't match the one Maura's been told since childhood and she finally decides neither of her parents deserve her forgiveness. According to Jason, that's why it's called grace ...