This book is book three in a trilogy of books about Becky and Dan Jeffries and their extended family. Book one is entitled Life gets complicated and the second is entitled Life Goes On. Life Gets Better discusses: Little Grady Flannigan goes missing and his police sergeant mother is frantic - will he be found? Baby Vicki's parents learn that she is almost totally deaf - will she be able to hear? Dorothea's dog Jake swallows a button battery - will he live? Will Ken and Glenn survive when their helicopter crashes in the Canadian wilderness? Will Shirley Roberts's third book become a best-seller? Will detective Dan Jeffries be involved in more dangerous altercations with criminals? Will Dan's wife Becky succeed with her new endeavour with Crime Stoppers?