title: Letters for Grace: One Mother's Journey
author:  Jane Nicolet 
description: Born in a small Illinois town located on the banks of the Mississippi, Jane Nicolet calls on her Midwestern understanding of personal strength and family interconnectedness to craft Letters for Grace, a first published memoir. She is a mother, grandmother, sister, educator and writer living in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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  # Little Lost Things
  
  
  ### Arms of Grace Book II
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Eleanor Chance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #### Darlington Publishing
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Also by Eleanor Chance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Arms of Grace](https://alsoby.me/r/amazon/B07QHFS7QM?fc=us&ds=1)
  
  
  [Grace’s Favorite Italian
  Dishes](https://alsoby.me/r/amazon/B07RDMHWC6?fc=us&ds=1)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To Mom, for believing in me from the beginning.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Relief washed over Grace Walker when she heard the click of Johnny’s crutches
  in the entryway. Her son was ninety minutes late getting home from school.
  He’d been ignoring her calls and texts. He’d never been so late without
  calling, and Grace had imagined the worst, as any mother would, but she wasn’t
  just any mother.
  
  
  Her fingers froze over the keyboard of her laptop that rested on the dining
  room table. It was impossible to predict which Johnny would wander into the
  living room. Would it 