What if you found out that you were descended from a long line of clandestine fighters, and that your family was still at war? August Archer thinks she's a normal teenage girl--even if she has been having disturbing erotic dreams about wolves lately. Still grieving over the loss of her father, and wondering over his final gift of a red hooded cloak, August is uprooted from her big city apartment to a tiny town in Maryland, where she meets an enigmatic, irresistibly fascinating man who refuses to talk to her, yet who fuels her most intense romantic fantasies. But it's when August begins talking to her feisty Scottish grandmother that a strange tale of werewolves and hunters emerges--one in which the man of her dreams may be her family's oldest enemy--in this modern-day telling of the Red Riding Hood story.