
For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home kept distant by family disputes & her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation But now summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale & his controversial scheme to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to the English countryside she is back in the peat & wet light of the Lake District The earl's project harks back to an ancient idyll of untamed British wilderness
- though Rachel must contend with modern-day concessions to health & safety public outrage & political gain
- & the return of the Grey after hundreds of years coincides with her own regeneration impending motherhood & reconciliation with her estranged family The Wolf Border investigates the fundamental nature of wilderness & wildness both animal & human It seeks to understand the most obsessive aspects of humanity sex love & conflict; the desire to find answers to the question of our existence; those complex systems that govern the most superior creature on earth