Ya Yas in Bloom, by Rebecca Wells, is the next novel in a series which has also led to a movie, Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, starring Sandra Bullock and Gena Rowlands. It takes the logical next step in following the lives of Caro, Vivi, Teensy, and Necie. Only now, there are two more generations for readers to love.

The Ya Ya Petites are the sons and daughters of the original Ya Yas. This novel continues into the third generation with the Tres Petites. Wells helps her readers by including a drawing of the four family trees.

By way of introduction, Vivi opens this novel by talking to her readers as though they were sitting on her porch stoop. She and her mother are reveling in the joy of Vivi's daughter, Siddalee. One surmises that there is nothing quite like the bond of mothers and daughters.

As the story continues, Wells explains how the first generation met. Teensy Whitman, a sassy child of four, managed to shove a pecan so far up her left nostril that it would not come out for anybody. This led to her and Genevieve, Teensy's mother, making a trip to the doctor. In the waiting room were Vivi Abbott, suffering from an ear infection, and her mother, Mary Katherine "Buggy" Abbott. Readers will discover that the two girls create a lifelong bond.

In time, Caro and Necie join the circle of lifelong friends. Their bond is put to the strongest test when one of the Tres Petites, Rosalyn Hammond, the granddaughter of Necie Kelleher Ogden, is kidnapped by a woman desperate to have a child of her own. The four families must pull together right at the point when they are about to fall apart.