Grin and Bear It

By leslie LaFoy

$5.50 ~ Paperback ~ Book No. 230532

Stacy Kavanaugh's life has been the pits lately. Six months agookay, six months, one week and two days, but who's counting? Her husband left her for an exotic dancer. The property settlement negotiations have been downright ugly. And exhausting. Stacy has had enough. She's spent the weekend packing up all the small appliances Daniel has been demanding. The first item on her To Do List for Monday morning is to instruct her attorney to throw in the towel. And the pasta machine, too.

But you know what they say about the best laid plans. Her attorney calls to tell her that Daniel is now threatening to ask for half of her business in the property settlement. Stacy figures things have hit rock bottom. How could they get any worse?

Well.... the Sheriff's deputy could walk in the door five minutes later to tell her that Daniel has crashed his single engine plane into the mountains of Montana's Bitterroot National Forest. He's presumed dead, but there's no body. They think a bear dragged it away. It's snowing and it'll be Spring before they can do another search for Daniel's remains. Yeah, that would definitely qualify as worse.

It's probably a good thing that Stacy has no idea how bad things are really going to get. Grin and Bear It.