by Dorothea Benton Frank

On an island off the North Carolina coast, Anna is a divorcTe and a single mom whose hair salon is a warm and comforting Gossip Central for all the women in the community. When her pierced and alienated daughter Emily comes home from college, Anna knows she has to keep secret the the truth about Emily's father or the girl will just get worse. And to make matters more complicated, not only has Anna just met the man of her dreams, but Emily's father is in town....