In a small Alabama town, life is finally looking up for twenty-year-old Donnette Sullivan. She's just inherited her aunt's house and beauty shop, and her recently crippled husband is beginning to cope with the loss of his dreams. Yet the opening of the shop leads to a surprising sequence of events. Making Waves is about love, friendship, and betrayal, and about unfulfilled desires and heartbreaking losses. Once the waves of change begin, the lives of the people in this small town are inexorably altered.