The Butterfly Garden

A young woman sits across from two FBI agents and chooses what to reveal. She calls herself Maya, and she is one of the survivors of the Garden, a hidden glasshouse where a man known as the Gardener kept kidnapped girls, each tattooed with butterfly wings across her back. Her guarded, sharp-tongued account gradually uncovers what happened inside, and the agents begin to wonder what she is still holding back.

Dot Hutchison builds the tension through conversation and memory rather than chases or set-piece action. Maya's wary, wry voice keeps the darkness bearable. This is the first book in The Collector series, and the publisher notes it was an Amazon Charts bestseller. It suits readers who enjoy unsettling, character-driven psychological thrillers with a narrator they cannot quite trust.