Also, and I just thought of this. If a female alpha were to take over, it would be the ONLY significant animal group where Anita was NOT the were-leader or whatever. So in actuality, if this did happen it would probably be immediately squashed when, after 600 pages of description Anita summarily inhaled the hyena female into her vagina off-panel and the book ended. There would, of course, be an epilogue letting us know exactly how long Nathaniel's hair was.