Georgia was raised by a single mom who struggled to make ends meet in rural New Hampshire. Her mother shaped Georgia into a self-reliant, independent woman who's unable to trust anyone. Although her mother doesn't approve, Georgia follows in her footsteps and becomes a beautician because she loves helping people feel beautiful.

In the pivotal opening scene, Georgia witnesses her mentor and friend collapse and be rushed to the ER from the fancy Manhattan salon where they work. This shock causes Georgia to reflect on the events in her life that have led to her current career path. In her delightfully honest voice, she guides the reader through her childhood at her mother's beauty parlor, with bits of hair trimmings falling into her playpen, to her present job in New York's hottest hair salon. Even with this successful career, Georgia is not happy. She wants to find someone special, but dating the clients is out, because they just can't understand her lifestyle, and practically every male hairdresser in the city is gay.

When her boss asks her to scout locations in Paris for a franchise, her evenings are suddenly full of French classes, business seminars and dreams of her own salon. But when the plans for expansion are put in jeopardy, Georgia must decide if she can shape her own dreams, take a risk, and trust her friends in a new venture.

The author is an experienced colorist to celebrities and she shares her insider information as juicy gossip. Her laugh-out-loud characterizations of the salon clientele make this novel a winner. Clients are stereotyped based on where they live, how long they've had money, whether they work and how they tip. Descriptions range from the hilarious Manhattan working woman to the horrific, expressionless women fresh from a Botox treatment. My advice: Read this book, and then treat yourself to a trip to the salon.