Ian Hunter is Cara's estranged father. As his name suggests, Ian is a Hunter and therefore a servant of Beloved's who hunts and kills unicorns. Cara hates her father, because she loves the unicorns and views them as her friends. She can't comprehend how her father could go about doing such things. When she returns to earth and is capture by Beloved, she sees that her father is also there. Since he didn't even acknowledge her Cara decides he is no longer her father. In the end Ian ends up betraying Beloved in order to rescue his daughter. He tells her that he was wrong all along and the he now hopes to help unicorns as oppose to harming them.
