The Alluring Cougar: Insight, Humor & Coffee: Short Stories on Unique Aging Women

Mother-daughter writing team Dene Hellman and Ann O’Dell explore the landscape of unique aging women through humor and insight. Their work features a diverse range of characters, from alluring cougars and women navigating menopause and hormone replacement therapy to super grandmothers who step up in times of crisis, retired animal rescuers, and executive women pursuing their dreams and finding love at 60+.

Dene Hellman’s dry humor delivers sharp insights that resonate with a grumpy old man stuck with a cat, an aging spinster and her controlling mother, elder marriage in side-by-side houses, and an old man who parties at funeral spreads. Meanwhile, Ann O’Dell draws from her experiences as an aging hippy woman, weaving in the theme of a haunted painting.