Linda Heffer

Linda Heffer is mother to main character Zoey. She married John Heffer three years before the start of the series. Ever since her marriage to Jon Heffer, an elder of The People of Faith, 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 Johns decision to disown Zoey.

Awakened
Linda discovers that her husband of about four years was cheating on her with his secretary. Before she could reconcile with Zoey, Neferet killed her as a sacrifice to Darkness to make her vessel, Aurox. Linda is welcomed in the Otherworld by Nyx and Zoey finally learns that her mother truly loved her.