"With an unstoppable energy, Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba defends her territories: that of nature and wildlife, threatened by the greed of men, and that of women, where predators are always on the lookout."
—L’Obs

★Rights sold: French, English, Swedish, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch.
★Winner - Prix des lecteurs de l’Armitière 2022
Finalist - Prix des Libraires (France) 2022
Finalist - Prix France-Québec 2020
Finalist - Prix Ouest-France Étonnants Voyageurs 2022
★The narrator of Gimme Shelter, returns as a love story gradually develops between her and Raphaëlle, a rebel wildlife ranger. In this ecofeminist thriller, the lens is now turned to excessive hunting practices and the fast-fashion market.

The story takes place in the rugged forests in northeastern Quebec. The protagonist, Raphaëlle, is a wildlife conservationist living alone in a trailer deep in the forest. Her original mission was to track down and stop a notorious poacher, but she becomes the prey herself—the roles of hunter and protector are subtly reversed. With the help of Anouk (the protagonist of Gimme Shelter) and a forester friend, the three join forces to fight back, vowing to protect the rivers, herds, and ancient forests of this "crown jewel."

Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba was born in 1987 in Montreal, the daughter of a language teacher and a medical translator. She studied at Laval University and graduated in 2010.

She then worked as a translator. In 2013, she left her job and the hustle and bustle of Montreal to live in a log cabin in the Kamouraska region, on the banks of the river of the same name, without electricity, running water, or cell service, surrounded by coyotes and bears. The first winter was one of solitude and a return to nature, but also of peace. Later, she became involved with a group of environmentalists fighting against an oil pipeline project[1], and moved in with a lover in a house built next to her cabin. They have a daughter.

She also became a municipal councillor for Saint-Bruno-de-Kamouraska in a 2016 by-election, was re-elected in 2017, and resigned in 2019. A few years later, she temporarily moved back closer to Montreal so that her daughter could attend school. She also devoted herself to writing, initially for activist purposes, to share her convictions about the need to protect nature through novels that were both committed and poetic.