Thirty-five-year-old Wendy Shaw has just been, as she puts it, "unleashed" from a three-month stay in a psychiatric institution in New York. Now, seeking emotional respite in her older sister's West Michigan home, Wendy makes the conscious decision to give up her cosmopolitan life as a trendy nightclub promoter to take time to heal from the death of her three ex-lovers: one by suicide, one by bludgeoning in Greenwich Village, and the third from "natural causes" in his Upper West Side condo. When Wendy's sister sets her up on a blind date with a local home contractor, she wonders if she can ever allow herself to love again. Is Wendy's love life forever tainted and cursed? This traumatic shift reveals the dangers of being a fatally passionate woman like Wendy. Ivan Jenson's The Tigress is a tour de force of psychological suspense that will take the reader deep within the inner workings of Wendy's fragile mind, as she finally discovers that for her, love and death might be irrevocably intertwined.