Description: In the smartest, funniest, and sharpest novel since Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying", the women of America are mad as hell-- and they're not going to DO IT anymore!

What would happen if a bold, successful female executive called upon the nation's women to withhold sex until a highly placed spousal abuser was brought to justice? It would rock the country-- and her life-- that's what! "Holding Out" is so fresh, so funny, and so controversial, it's sure to cause a major stir.

Lauren Fontaine is a thirty-six-year-old financial executive and single mother with a wicked wit and a tenacious sense of right and wrong. Like many, she is outraged when the wife of the chief justice of the Supreme Court commits suicide after years of spousal abuse-- and the "good old boys" in Congress refuse to impeach the offender. Lauren suggests that every woman in America refuse to have sex until the judge is removed from the bench. But when her proposed sex strike becomes the rage of the nation, Lauren finds herself pitted against every man in the country-- and placed unwittingly at the center of the most controversial "happening" in the history of the women's movement.

Through it all, Lauren must come to terms with her own burgeoning (and presently sexless) relationship with a handsome writer, as well as her changing assumptions about women-- all without losing her sense of humor. Combining a sexy, modern heroine with an imaginative and surprisingly poignant plot, this delicious must-listen marks the debut of one of fiction's most sophisticated new talents.

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