Three friends, three lives, one location: San Francisco. Lydia wants to transform an intellectual book store owner into the sophisticated lover of her dreams; vivacious socialite Molly meets her match in journalist Harker Trevane; and Cassie - a professor of literature - finally starts exploring her true Sapphic desires. Blending fairy tale themes with contemporary situations, The Transformation is a dazzling story of three women who find themselves at a sexual crosswords in their lives. Exploring thier sensual selves in the most liberated of American cities, the friends discover things about themselves- and each other- they never knew existed.