The author, Shreve Stockton, is a young woman who was moving from San Francisco to New York and fell in love with Wyoming during that part of the trip. So she moves to a small, rural town in Wyoming and gradually integrates into the rural Wyoming life. Along the way a friend, who is a paid coyote hunter, gives her an infant coyote pup.

Stockton ends up raising the coyote and the book focuses on that but also includes her descriptions of the rural lifestyle, her teaching experience, her rancher/coyote hunter boyfriend, her small cabin etc..

It is a fun, balanced read. She has a nice sense of humor but also addresses the more serious issues in the book. She acknowledges the controversy about raising a wild coyote in rural Wyoming both from anti-coyote ranchers and also from others who do not believe it is ethical or appropriate to essentially domesticate a wild animal. She explains her actions while understanding the different perspectives and also discusses her hurt when receives personal criticism(a lot which comes through a blog she started on Charlie the coyote)

But I want to emphasize that while there are serious discussions, it mainly a fun, balanced enjoyable read