Inara Morrissey aka Maya aka Samira Grantaire

Inara is the main character and one of the narrators of the novel. Because she appears to be the leader of the girls who have been rescued from a harem operated by Geoffrey MacIntosh, she is taken to FBI headquarters to be questioned.

Inara is hesitant in giving information to the agents who question her. They later learn it is because she was trying to protect her friend Sophia whom she knew had escaped from the Garden years earlier. Inara knew that Sophia’s oldest daughter is the biological child of the Gardener. She is afraid that if the officials learn that Sophia’s daughter belongs to the Gardener that Sophia will have her daughter taken away from her.

The abuse in Inara’s life began before she was kidnapped by the Gardener. She tells Victor she does not consider herself a...