Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult

Luke Warren has spent most of his life working with wolves, studying them, writing about them, even living with them. He probably understands them better than humans--his wife has left their lonely marriage and his son, Edward, fled their shattered relationship six years ago.

Then Edward receives a frantic phone call: his father is in a coma, gravely injured in a car accident along with his younger sister Cara. He must return home to face the family he walked out on at age eighteen, and he and Cara have to decide their father's fate together. Cara wants to wait for a miracle, Edward to terminate life support. There is no easy answer, but questions abound. What secrets have Edward and his sister kept from each other? Is Edward motivated by revenge or guilt? What would Luke himself want? And have they forgotten what a wolf pack knows, that each pack member needs the others, and sometimes survival means sacrifice?

Lone Wolf explores the notion of family, and the love, protection and strength it can offer. But what if the hope that should sustain it is the very thing that pulls it apart? Another tour de force from Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf examines the wild and lonely terrain upon which love battles reason.