Lydia wants to transform an intellectual bookstore owner into the sophisticated lover of her dreams; vivacious socialite Molly meets her match in journalist Harker Trevane; and Cassie, a literature professor, finally starts exploring her true Sapphic desires. Blending fairy tale themes with contemporary situations, this is a dazzling story of three women at sexual crossroads in their lives. Exploring their sensual selves in the most liberated of cities—San Francisco—the friends discover things about themselves and each other that they never knew existed.