The Hundredth Woman is the playful, passionate, and soul-baring story of three gutsy women. Clarissa, a mixed-blooded Cherokee activist, must stop a nuclear dump to save her town. Serena, a cranky multimillionaire and shack-dwelling hermit, has three missions to accomplish before she turns sixty. One is to find the daughter she abandoned at birth-Clarissa. Morgan, spirited and almost wise, is Clarissa's counselor. Her life is good-but not right. In fact, her man-of-the-moment has just turned violent and she has no plan of escape. The lush North Carolina summer pulses with possibility as the lives of these three women unravel, then unite, in surprising and wondrous ways. Children, lovers, work, friends, ghosts from the past, and their own overworked emotions tug at their attention. As an otherworldly foe seeks to destroy them all, the three women face an extraordinary challenge. They must tip the balance in the critical mass needed to usher in-on a global scale-the womanly values of compassion, connectedness, intuition, nurturing, and stewardship of the earth. The Hundredth Woman is a page-turning adventure, a get-down gab fest, a transcendent vision of womanhood, and an inspirational good time, all at once.