I don't know the familiarities of Michigan either, I just think it is a good area, considering all the forestry and small towns lol. It doesn't HAVE to be Michigan, but I would like somewhere with a lake, forest and small town (:
and sorry if I didn't explain it, I kind of rushed to post this. 
I mean that the werewolf protects her, and yet she doesn't know a werewolf is protecting her, she just believes he is human.