Sylvia has also passed down her Cherokee beliefs to Zoey. They are very close and loving towards each other and Sylvia is very wise. When Zoey was first Marked in Marked, she went straight to her grandmother's lavender farm, because she knew her grandmother would know what to do. Zoey and her grandmother, Sylvia, are extremely close. He often tries to embarrass Zoey in any way he possible can. When Zoey was Marked, he blamed it on her bad behavior and karma. He took her mom away from her and he always got her in trouble with her mother.

John is the worst thing that ever happened to human Zoey. She uses John to make her decisions for her and hides behind him like a coward. She seems to have changed completely and doesn't support her daughter anymore on any of her choices. Linda married the Step Loser, John Heffer. Zoey's relationship with her mother seemed to be the best thing in the whole world-except three years before Marked. According to Zoey, her older sister and younger brother pretended to like their step-father leading her mom to believe that they were happy. She spent several years with her on-off boyfriend and childhood friend Heath Luck, and her human ex-best-friend Kayla. As a result of that marriage, Zoey was moving further away from her family and the only family member she still considered family was her grandmother, Sylvia Redbird. Her mother re-married John Heffer, (Zoey calls him the 'Step Loser').

Her father left Zoey and her family when Zoey was a child. Zoey Redbird was born as Zoey Montgomery to Linda and Paul Montgomery.

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