Ariel Wilson, "Jack" to her friends, has a mother determined to make her a superstar. During the school year, she is in lessons, classes, and sports, but she never wins...at least at anything her mom cares about. During the summer, Ariel becomes "Little Wolf," living with her father just as Native Americans did centuries ago. Then Ariel gets kidnapped by a group of men who want to blackmail her mother. These men are professional kidnappers who have abducted dangerous men before, so they're not worried about some rich teenage girl. They should be, though, because they haven't kidnapped a girl...they've got a wolf.