A spicy, raucously satiric follow-up to Jill Nelson's bestselling "Sexual Healing"

In "Let's Get It On," a group of savvy friends start what they couldn't find elsewhere--a "full-service spa" that caters to professional women. After opening a wildly successful spa in Reno (which turned the world's oldest profession on its head), Lydia Beaucoup and her friends Acey Allen and LaShaWanda P. Marshall decide to grow their business--with a new spa on a boat moored off the shore at Martha's Vineyard. Just like their Reno operation, this haven for pampering is unique. In addition to massage and reflexology, clients can purchase fabulous, multiorgasmic safe sex from men trained to please women.

But selling sex is never easy. Insatiable clients, mob extortion, and a federal government that wants to ban sex between unmarried people are just a few of the problems that threaten to take down A Sister's Spa on Martha's Vineyard.

Smart, sizzling, and wickedly funny, "Let's Get It On" is an outrageous tale of three women who push traditional envelopes in pursuit of empowerment, and a witty, forthright look at what women really want.

Beloved writer J. California Cooper has won a legion of loyal fans and much critical acclaim for her powerful storytelling gifts. In language both spare and direct yet wondrously lyrical, LIFE IS SHORT BUT WIDE is an irresistible story of family that proves no matter who you are or what you do, you are" "never too old to chase your dreams.
Like the small towns J. California Cooper has so vividly portrayed in her previous novels and story collections, Wideland, Oklahoma, is home to ordinary Americans struggling to raise families, eke out a living, and fulfill their dreams. In the early twentieth century, Irene and Val fall in love in Wideland. While carving out a home for themselves, they also allow neighbors Bertha and Joseph to build a house and live on their land. The next generation brings two girls for Irene and Val, and a daughter for Bertha and Joseph. As the families cope with the hardships that come with changing times and fortunes, and people are born and pass away, the characters learn the importance of living one's life boldly and squeezing out every possible moment of joy.
Cooper brilliantly captures the cadences of the South and draws a picture of American life at once down-to-earth and heartwarming in this-as her wise narrator will tell you-"strange, sad, kind'a beautiful, life story." It is a story about love that leads to the ultimate realization that whoever you are, and whatever you do, life is short, but it is also wide.