Georgie chooses to follow Edward as he is taken away by Security rather than stay with a very distraught Cara and in this moment Cara decides to she needs to do something about Edward to make sure her Dad is safe.Ĭara leaves the hospital and calls a friend to pick her up and take her to see Danny Boyle, the County Attorney, and asks him to prosecute Edward for attempted murder. The staff manage to wrestle Edward away and get the plug back in and the machines working again and Edward is arrested. Realising this could be his only chance Edward pushes a nurse aside and pulls the plug out anyway.

As they are about to go ahead, Cara finds out what is happening and rushes in to stop them. She also blames Edward for their parents’ marriage breaking down as they separated soon after Edward left.Īfter a very distressing meeting between Edward, Cara and the hospital staff about how to proceed with Luke’s care, Edward decides to make the decision for Cara so she doesn’t have to and tells the staff Cara has agreed to switching the machines off and allowing his organs to be harvested for donation. Cara is furious and accuses Edward of wanting to kill their Dad because of the argument they had when he told him he was gay.

After talking to the Doctors and thinking about his Dad’s lifestyle Edward feels that it would be better to switch off the life support machines and let Luke die. Georgie calls their son, Edward, who had left home 6 years earlier, at the age of 18, after telling Luke that he was gay.Īs Cara is only 17 and Georgie is now divorced from Luke any medical decisions are to be made by Edward. Cara has a broken collar bone but Luke has bleeding in the brain and, after an operation to try and reduce the pressure in his brain, is left in a coma with his Doctor saying he is unlikely to ever regain consciousness. One night, Luke and Cara are involved in a car accident. Luke’s daughter, Cara, lives with him after having decided she preferred his slightly unusual lifestyle to living with her Mum, Georgie, her new husband, Joe, and their twin children, Elizabeth and Jackson. Luke is a conservationist who has managed to integrate himself into wolf packs and spent time in Canada living with wild wolves. “Lone Wolf” is the most recent book from Jodi Picoult and tells the story of Luke Warren and his family.

Jodi picoult lone wolf summary