After her first trip to a beauty parlor Junie decides she wants to work there, and she practices on her bunny slippers, her dog, and herself with disastrous results.

Presley Cline has put aside dreams of Hollywood stardom and come back to Ellery, Tennessee, to work in a beauty shop. In truth, the dreams in question were more her mother's than her own. Presley may have the face and body of a movie icon, but she lacks the stomach for it. Yet a loving relationship and normal home life seem almost as unattainable as an Oscar. Being able to see and speak to dead people certainly isn't helping... --Publisher

Gina Norris is in Atlanta making a name for herself at a posh Southern salon with her cutting-edge hairstyles. But when her flamboyant, egotistical boss takes it one criticism too far, she leaves his salon to open a shop of her own.

"Abue nada más se quiere acostar, pero todavía se puede jugar--maguillala bien y hazla brillar! -- Birdie provides instructions on how to give her tired grandma a makeover, complete with facial hair removal, cosmetics application, massage, and accessorizing.

On her mother's birthday, Nancy gives her a total beauty makeover in the yard outside, which she has converted into a fancy salon.

After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale Loretha Curry's life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband...

Lark is in Last Chance, South Carolina, looking into her father's past and stirring up trouble without meaning to ; Ruby Rhodes' son Stone, the chief of police, has his hands full trying to keep up with Lark as well as avoiding the town's matchmakers and their plans for Lark and Stone.

"Ruby always knew her beautiful daughter Rocky wasn't much interested in the local boys - but who'd have thought she'd come home with English royalty? Trouble is, Hugh wants to buy some local land. No one wants to sell, but Rocky's job depends on her closing the deal. And though Hugh is obviously smitten, Ruby isn't sure he's right for her Rocky. Oh, he's classy and handsome - and he did judge pies and fix stock cars at the Watermelon festival - but...

Eleven years ago, LilyAnn Bronte was the Peachy-Keen Queen of Blessings, Georgia--the prettiest, smartest, and most popular girl in town, going steady with the star quarterback, a high school career on a fast track to success. Then Randy Joe was killed in Iraq, and somehow LilyAnn just let herself go to seed. Ruby, Mabel Jean, Vera and Vesta of the Curl Up and Dye have been itching to give LilyAnn a makeover, but she knows it would take more than...