Sex is sociology professor Charlene Singer's business. She knows what makes for good sex and understands what it takes to have great sex. Unfortunately for her, she's experienced only bad sex. But that's about to change, she hopes.

Charlene has always believed that it's what's on the outside that counts. She even wrote her thesis on it! And that's got her...nowhere. So she's going to change her image--going from cool and conservative to brazen and bold--to see if she gets any luckier. Only, she soon realizes she'll need more than luck to handle her test subject, cowboy Mason McGraw....