Binding: Paperback
Date Published: 07 Jul 2026
AMOR FATI is a harrowing true story about survival, hope, and healing. It is the incredible testimony of Zoë Collins' fight for survival, against unthinkable odds, and the inspirational journey she took toward reclaiming her life. Written with emotional intensity and raw vulnerability, she takes readers inside the trauma that reshaped her life, and the long aftermath that followed. Zoë shares AMOR FATI as a beacon of hope and proof that, even after the darkest experiences, life can still take root again.
Aged sixteen in 1997, she was groomed and abducted by a man who held her captive for three months. Managing to escape, she turns up on her parents' front doorstep, barefoot, broken, and pregnant. After enduring experiences that no person should ever have to face, Zoë survived, but survival was only the beginning. Discouraged from seeking justice and forbidden to speak about what happened to her, what followed were years of silence, shame, and carrying all of the traumatic pain alone. Believing that speaking might cause more harm than healing, this memoir traces not just what happened to Zoë, but what it took for her to become truly free, and to finally begin living again.