Unbound
In honouring the strength of Project Raven, Kristin Howe personally understands the hesitation of telling your own story. Determined to show the strength that comes from our darkest moments, she is pleased to announce her debut novel, Unbound.
A fictional story inspired by true events, Unbound draws on Kristin’s lived experience as a survivor of human trafficking to explore the unvarnished reality of recovery.
”Once that devil gets hold, it doesn’t let go”
Everyone believed Piper came from a good family, but some monsters wear familiar faces.
For Piper, survival meant silence. It meant learning how to read the shifting moods of a father who could transform from loving protector to something unrecognizable — something she named Fenrir. A wolf hiding inside her father. A darkness responsible for violence, manipulation, and horrors no child should ever endure.
Years later, while struggling with PTSD, intrusive thoughts, and the pressure of motherhood, Piper begins therapy expecting to fix the parts of herself she thinks are broken. Instead, she descends into the darkest corners of her past, where forgotten truths wait beneath years of denial, fear, and repression.
As memory and reality collide, Piper is forced to confront the truth about her childhood, the girls who disappeared, and the unbearable guilt she has carried for decades. But uncovering the past comes at a cost. Every revelation threatens to shatter the life she built, the mother she struggles to be, and the fragile sense of safety she has fought desperately to maintain.
Unbound is a devastating and unforgettable psychological drama exploring the aftermath of abuse, survival, and breaking the cycle before it consumes another generation
The Story of Piper
Everyone believed Piper came from a good family, but some monsters wear familiar faces.
For Piper, survival meant silence. It meant learning how to read the shifting moods of a father who could transform from loving protector to something unrecognizable — something she named Fenrir. A wolf hiding inside her father. A darkness responsible for violence, manipulation, and horrors no child should ever endure.
Years later, while struggling with PTSD, intrusive thoughts, and the pressure of motherhood, Piper begins therapy expecting to fix the parts of herself she thinks are broken. Instead, she descends into the darkest corners of her past, where forgotten truths wait beneath years of denial, fear, and repression.
As memory and reality collide, Piper is forced to confront the truth about her childhood, the girls who disappeared, and the unbearable guilt she has carried for decades. But uncovering the past comes at a cost. Every revelation threatens to shatter the life she built, the mother she struggles to be, and the fragile sense of safety she has fought desperately to maintain.
Unbound is a devastating and unforgettable psychological drama exploring the aftermath of abuse, survival, and breaking the cycle before it consumes another generation.
This is Piper's truth.
About the Author
Kristin Howe writes upmarket psychological thrillers and trauma survivor narratives. Her debut novel, UNBOUND, is fiction inspired by true events, drawing on her lived experience as a survivor of human trafficking to explore the unvarnished reality of recovery. Her perspective is further sharpened by a decade in emergency services as a paramedic and 911 dispatcher, providing her work with a unique blend of clinical precision and lyrical, emotional depth. She lives in just outside Ottawa, Ontario, with her husband and two daughters, where she balances her writing with the tactile precision of traditional woodworking and hand-carving.
