The Ultimate Solution

In the not too distant future Dianna Harrison a high priced corporate financial consultant a daughter of old money has everything she wants a loving husband two sons at Sandhurst-on-Sound an exclusive military school and an old Victorian estate in the village of Old Claremont on Long Island's North Shore. She is a long-legged beauty with the figure of a lingerie or swimsuit model and a dark olive complexion. What she doesn't have is a mane of long flowing ebony locks. Instead she has a cock's comb of black unmanageable frizz which can neither be straightened nor permed. She would try anything to have a cascade of blue-black anthracite crashing over her shoulders and pouring down her back including selling her soul. Set in a time where the control a woman has over her body has been scientifically advanced extended and firmly protected by law Dianna may finally have found the final solution to her self-esteem problem. She finds it in a simple cream rinse. She is happy with it until she hears about a process called The Tantalus System. Two stumbling blocks stand in her way Jo-lee her hairdresser and Alison Coney her slightly twisted friend.