Diana Dirkby, the pen name of accomplished research mathematician Paula Tretkoff, gracefully weaves together the tapestry of complex relationships in the three families featured in her novel "Three Kidnapped, Three Siblings, Three Furies." Born in Sydney, Australia, and now dividing her time between Texas and Alaska with her spouse, Diana has transitioned from her career in academia to become an author whose debut novel "The Overlife, A Tale of Schizophrenia," resonates with authentic experiences of her mother and herself living with paranoid schizophrenia. "Three Kidnapped, Three Siblings, Three Furies" is her second novel that invites us all to embrace the transformative power of storytelling in understanding the unseen depths of the human heart with a twist.