Kathleen Flynn-Hui

Welcome to Jean-Luc, New York's hottest salon of the minute, where high above Madison Avenue, Georgia Watkins - star colorist - tends to the hair of socialites, actresses, models and moguls. Georgia wasn't born to the Manhattan elite, but she was born to color hair; back in rural New Hampshire, her single mother struggled to pay rent on her own...

Readers hoping for more hauteur la Bergdorf Blondes can reach for this debut by a celebrity colorist at a Manhattan salon. Flynn-Hui's alter ego, sweet but street-smart Georgia, works miracles for a bevy of glamour girls at Jean-Luc, the "epicenter of beautification." Georgia's own humble roots are worlds away from those of her clients, whom she...