The intrepid women of The Hot Flash Club are back for the holidays,
soothing jingled nerves and stressed shoppers in their exclusive spa
and celebrating the joys of the season. In her witty and delightfully
wisecracking prose, Nancy Thayer tells a heartwarming tale packed with
fun, secrets, romance-and an ample dose of good cheer.
When the Hot Flash friends gather at the spa to trim the Christmas
tree, they share steaming mugs of hot chocolate, a few laughs, and a
vow to make this holiday one to remember. And it is-but not in the
cheerful, ho-ho-ho way they expected. Instead, Christmas brings family
conflicts, household accidents, plane delays-and that's just the
beginning.
After a hazardous holiday season, the women make resolutions that they
intend to keep . . . in a perfect world. But life-and their friends
and relatives-cause complications. Shirley lends financial support to
her boyfriend's schemes, which infuriates Alice, whose own son commits
an act she's not sure she can accept. Marilyn travels to Scotland and
falls in love, but her octogenarian mother needs her at home. And when
Polly and Faye find themselves pitted against each other by a younger
woman, an they overcome this clash to make a new, entrepreneurial
dream come true? Then real disaster strikes, bringing new challenges
and surprising revelations.
Just as every month of the year throws new problems at us all, so too
does the end of the year give us the chance to reunite and put these
problems into their proper perspective. And when the Hot Flash Five
get together for the holidays, we should expect nothing less than the
unexpected.