Awaiting her own trial, a startling fact emerges from the DNA: the priest was innocent. Frustrated by the threat of an unsatisfactory legal outcome, she takes the law into her own hands, killing the priest in open court. Nina Frost, an assistant district attorney in Maine, knows how hard it is to obtain a conviction for a sex crime when the victim is a juvenile, so when her five-year-old son, Nathaniel, identifies their priest as being the man who raped him, Nina's grievances with the system become personal. What happens when the hope that should sustain a family is the very thing tearing it apart?Īnother tour de force by Picoult, "Lone Wolf" brilliantly describes the nature of a family: the love, protection, and strength it can offer-and the price we might have to pay for those gifts.One plot element-a case of child molestation involving a Catholic priest-in Picoult's latest novel (after Salem Falls) now seems eerily prescient, but that's only part of the saga she weaves, which is primarily an indictment of the current criminal justice system.
Though there's no easy answer, questions abound: What secrets have Edward and his sister kept from each other? What would Luke himself want? How can any family member make such a decision in the face of guilt, pain, or both? And most importantly, to what extent have they all forgotten what a wolf never forgets: that each member of a pack needs the others, and that sometimes survival means sacrifice?Īnother tour de force by Picoult, "Lone Wolf" brilliantly describes the nature of a family: the love, protection, and strength it can offer-and the price we might have to pay for those gifts. He and Cara have to decide their father's fate together. Suddenly everything changes: Edward must return home to face the father he walked out on at age eighteen.
Then comes a frantic phone call: Luke has been gravely injured in a car accident with Edward's younger sister, Cara. Edward understands that some things cannot be fixed, though memories of his domineering father still inflict pain. His son, Edward, twenty-four, fled six years ago, leaving behind a shattered relationship with his father. His wife, Georgie, has left him, finally giving up on their lonely marriage. In many ways, Luke understands wolf dynamics better than those of his own family. Luke Warren has spent his life researching wolves. Dying apart from its family, it stays proud and true to its nature. In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, it may sometimes choose to slip away. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family secrets, love, and letting go. A life hanging in the balance.a family torn apart.
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