At home on Ladybug Farm

Cici, Lindsay and Bridget have spent a year on Ladybug Farm, the old house they renovated together in the Shenandoah Valley. The work is mostly done, but making the place feel like a home is another matter.

Their settled routine is disturbed when two young people join the household. The arrival tests the order the women have built, and the shared life they pieced together begins to slide into chaos.

Meanwhile the walls of the old house give up secrets, and the lives of the people who lived there before start to come to light. The past of the building runs alongside the women's present troubles.

Then one member of the household faces a real crisis. The three must decide how hard they will fight for the roots they have put down, the hopes they hold in common and the family they have become.

This is the continuing story of the Ladybug Farm women, and the book follows on from the first year at the farm. The setting is a picturesque valley, and the tone is that of warm women's fiction about friendship and domestic life, with the upsets of an unsettled household and a serious threat near the end.