Tanzy Harrington is the ultimate Alpha Female. As the Bay Area's most-read single-scene columnist and self-proclaimed love-'em-and-leave-'em artist, she's not about to tie herself down to one man - especially when "settling down" seems awfully close to simply "settling." But when all of her friends are happily married - and reproducing - she's starting to feel a little bit like she's missing something important. What is it about those dependable guys - the sheep who follow along - that makes Tanzy want to prowl the hot spots looking for a wolf to take home to her lair?

And then there's Riley Parrish, her eccentric aunt's mysterious new employee. He's a sheep, all right ... right? But under his polite, good-provider exterior, she catches a glimpse of something decidedly wolfish lurking in his eyes.

With a deranged fan stalking her, her friends cooing over china patterns and baby outfits, and a deadline her editor won't extend, Tanzy's experiment in wolf-taming may be ill-thought, but it sure is a howling good time?