*Winner 2021 Indie Best Contest*
*Finalist for American Book Fest’s 2021 Best Book Award*
Rural Missouri, a hot summer day on
the Mississippi River during the Great Recession. The four Fehler sisters want
to be more than “bug girls” in their family’s fourth-generation pest control
business, but their path is fixed. When the patriarch suddenly dies, and his
succession goes according to plan but not expectation, they each must plot a
course for themselves in uncertain and changing times. Through it all, their
mother, Grace, weighs her own choices, and whether her passion to save her
family as a doomsday prepper also includes blowing up her world with a
forbidden romance.
In their small town and around the
dinner table, the Fehlers embody Midwestern resi
