Kids Are Chancey — Kay Dew Shostak

"A mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child," they say. But is it true? What if your children are all miserable, Carolina wonders, but your life is finally coming together? It's been almost a year since Carolina, her husband Jackson, and their three kids accidentally moved from her beloved Atlanta suburbs to a small town in the Georgia mountains, and Carolina hates small towns. But just as she's adapting to running a B&B and living in Chancey, her kids are falling apart. Will's new marriage and new job, are already old. Savannah's reduced to chasing a guy and she's playing the Southern Belle to do it. Bryan is labeled a stalker. But maybe worse, is he a world-class liar? Carolina's friends are having kid worries, too. Laney's finding the age gap between high school senior and newborn grows with her exhaustion. Susan's kids too quickly get accustomed, and attached, to their new station in life in their ritzy mountain community. Missus schemes to have her great-grandchild living under her roof, but that means living with a pregnant teenager first. Why do people keep having kids?