Linda Heffer is mother to main character Zoey Redbird. She married John Heffer three years before the start of the series. Ever since her marriage to John Heffer , an elder of The People of Faith, it is said that she started caring more about her appearance and John than her children. In Chosen, her mother, Sylvia Redbird, pointed out that she never liked to think for herself and had always had other people, usually a man, think for her. Linda supported John in pressuring Zoey to give up her vampyre lifestyle. When Zoey refused, Linda stood by John's decision to disown Zoey.