Jodi Picoult is one of my favorite authors and in Lone Wolf, she doesn’t disappoint.
Luke Warren is a man obsessed with studying wolves, and when he meets Georgie part of what attracts her to him is his passion and the wildness about him that comes from preferring wild animals to people. This is also what ultimately drives them a part.
Although Luke loves his family his desire to understand what it’s like to be a wolf causes friction. His wife doesn’t understand, his son, Edward, also doesn’t understand why his father chooses his wolf family over his human one, and his daughter, Cara, worships him.
Edward and his father have a falling out and Edward leaves the country. Luke and Georgie divorce, Cara lives with her father. They are all happily living the lives they chose until Cara and Luke are in an accident that leaves Luke in a coma with no hope for recovery.
Edward must come home, Cara is a minor and unable to make medical decisions for her father. That leaves only Edward who carries the last confrontation with his father in his heart.
Cara is angry that Edward has returned and that he gets to make decisions for a man he hasn’t seen in six years. Georgie is grateful to have her son home. Edward just wants it to all go away. He doesn’t want to make these decisions especially since he is not sure if he is making an unbiased decision.
Does he want to take his father off life support because that is what his father would want or is it because he is still hurt about what his father did that drove him away.
The family dynamics are heart wrenching and intricate. Cara wants her father to live, she wants him to have every chance to recover. She even goes as far as to have her brother arrested.
In the end, Edward will decide, mainly because he doesn’t want his sister to live with the guilt, but also, because he does still love his father.