Hilary Faktor has a background in public relations with writing published in The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, HuffPost Canada, Cloud Lake Literary, The Sunlight Press, and Broadview Magazine. When she’s not reading or writing, she manages to find herself downhill skiing, dabbling in adult gymnastics, or canoe racing up north—all of which make her incredibly nervous. “Pretty Bird” is her debut book. She resides in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Maeve Whitman has come a long way. As a teenage mom who’d escaped an artists’ cult by sacrificing her best friend, she’s created a safe and perfect suburban life.
But when the former cult leader, who is now a renowned photographer and father of her daughter, tracks her down and threatens to force her child back to the farm she escaped from, Maeve is faced with a choice: take her children and flee or stay and fight for the life she’s built for her family.
With her daughter facing the chaotic and slippery monsters who almost destroyed Maeve, she’s pulled back into a web of destruction she thought she’d escaped for good. By confronting her past, she’ll need to find the strength to take back her future and change the path her mother once set for them.
Just how far will the colony go to get her back in their clutches?