Because I'm too lazy to look up where we left off...

[meganbmoore]

 smillaraaq, I wonder if the book I was trying to think of was The Book of Atrax Wolfe by Patricia McKillip(I may have the title a little off...the book is at home and I'm at work.)  I thought it was something I hadn't bought, but I finally got the books out of the trunk of the car today and saw that.  McKillip came up in the book recs post...I didn't find the ones that were specifically recced, but it seemed to be "you'll like in general, but especially these."

It is, IIRC, about a man who flees his past life and lives wth wolves for years, then eventually has to return to civilization.