Lydia wants to transform an intellectual bookstore owner into the sophisticated lover of her dreams; vivacious socialite Molly meets her match in journalist Harker Treva≠ 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.