Fly by Night by Thalasinos, Andrea - 2016

New York: Tom Doherty Associates. New in New dust jacket. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is a beautiful and resonating look at the power of the human-animal bond on one woman's journey and the creation of a family. The same day marine biologist Amelia Drakos finds that funding is cut for her beloved Sea Horse Laboratory, and email from someone with her late father's name, Ted Drakos, lands in her in-box. She ignores it, too upset about the closing of the Laboratory. With unemployment looming, Amelia and two fellow research scientists move from Rhode Island to Minnesota, hired by the Mall of America Sea Life Aquarium - not where Amelia planned to be in her career. She is shocked when Drakos tracks her down at the Aquarium, claiming he has important information about an inherited property on Lake Superior, and that he is her older brother. She is shocked at her father's secret life but thrilled to find family, despite his coldness. He wants no relationship, only to settle the estate. When they check the property they discover orphaned wolf/husky pups near death under a dilapidated porch. Against her better judgment, Amelia brings them back to Minneapolis and finds herself embroiled in a heated environmental debateabout reinstatement of the wolf hunt in Wisconsin. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 444 pages .