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Amor Fati: An Incredible True Story of Survival, Hope & Healing
Paperback
Biographies GeneralSelf-HelpTrue Crime
ISBN13: 9781919462905
Publisher: Crystal Cove
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
2026 WINNER Independent Author Award for best Autobiography - Literary Global Book Awards.
2026 WINNER Independent Author Award for Women's Issues - Literary Global Book Awards.
2026 Finalist in multiple categories for the Independent Author Award - Literary Global Book Awards: Non-fiction Cover Design, Non-fiction Book Interior, Health - General, Inspirational.
DOES EVERYTHING IN OUR LIFE HAPPEN FOR A REASON?
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.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER SURVIVAL, WHEN THE DANGER ENDS BUT THE TRAUMA DOESN'T?
Unflinching in its detail yet deeply compassionate, the narrative moves through fear, resilience, and the search for meaning after devastation. Alongside the darkness are chapters filled with warmth, colour, unexpected light and even humour, reminding us that hope does not erase pain, but can grow beside it. This is not a softened account of what happened, nor a rushed portrayal of the recovery that followed. Instead, it sits in the truth: that survival is messy, nonlinear, and deeply human.
Acknowledging the devastating consequences of generational trauma, Zoë writes not only as a survivor, but as a mother, sharing how her own trauma shaped her parenting and how she learned to navigate her way through. Exploring the slow and uneven journey of recovery: the grief, the isolation, the setbacks, and the gradual rediscovery of connection, meaning, and hope. She reveals how healing often arrived quietly and unexpectedly, as she describes the incredible bond she had with horses throughout her life. Woven distinctively into her life's tapestry, they became a regular pattern, and played a vital part in her healing journey.
IS THERE LIFE AFTER TRAUMA?
AMOR FATI is not a story of forgetting the past, but of learning that pain does not have to be carried alone. It delivers the powerful message that suffering in silence deepens wounds rather than heals them, and that the most dangerous place to be held captive is in the unspoken traumas we lock deep within ourselves. It is an invitation to speak, to be seen, and to understand that healing often begins when silence ends.
It is brutal. It is honest. And it is, above all, a testament to survival, hope, and the possibility of healing. It is a story for anyone who has survived something that they should never have had to endure. It will appeal to readers drawn to powerful true stories that confront suffering, while ultimately affirming life. For trauma survivors, caregivers, and anyone navigating their own healing journey, this memoir offers comfort, understanding, and the reassurance that you are not alone in this world, and that your story matters.
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