Novel Characters
14-Sep-09
Name	Description 	Age
Beth Davis	Beth is Todd's wife and Leslie's sister-in-law. Beth and Todd have 16 year 	40
	old twins -- a boy and a girl -- who were born prematurely.
Lisa Adams	Lisa Adams is the fellow writer Lisa met at a book signing event. Lisa is 	68
	from Seattle and wrote a book about her experience in building a house.
Jonathan Alexander	Jonathan is Matt's younger brother who was supposed to be Matt's best 	38
	man at his wedding.
Reverend Alexander	Reverend Alexander is Matt's father and is an ordained minister in Iowa.	?
Megan Carter	Megan Carter is Tom Carter's wife. She owns a bookstore in downtown St. 	60
	Louis and comes from old St. Louis money. She and Tom live in a mansion 
	on Lindell Boulevard in midtown St. Louis. She invites Lisa and Leslie to 
	dinner after their book signing.
Tom Carter	Tom Carter is Megan Carter's husband. He's a former Army intelligence 	45
	operative  and is a chef.
Leslie Ann Davis	Leslie Ann Davis is a mystery writer and also a lawyer in her parents' law 	38
	firm in Rivermont. She's widow -- her husband, Matt Alexander, a minister, 
	was killed in a train derailment in 2005 -- 4 years ago.
Althea Derringer, M.D.	Dr. Althea Derringer is the physician that Marge Talbot calls in for a 	50
	consultation on Jeff after Marge is discouraged with Jeff's current 
	physician.
Perry Jones	Perry Jones is the villain, the stalker, the person who's after Leslie. She 	45
	handled his wife's divorce while he was in prison for beating up his wife. 
	Leslie never met him -- the divorce was uncontested and went through 
	easiliy. But Aperry resented Leslie and blamed the end of his marriage on 
	her. When he was relieased from prison, he kidnapped his wife and held 
	her captive for months. She tried to escape and he killed her. Her body 
	hasn’t been discovered yet. Perry has diecided that Leslie must take his 
	wife's place. He's tall and angular, walks with a grace ful saunter, has dark 
	blond hair that falls in his eyes. He's very bright, handsome, charming, the 
	perfect man, supposedly. He has a degree in finance and was an 
	investment broker at a small Rivermont firm until management discovered 
	he'd been siphoning off client funds into accounts that belonged to him.
Teresa Jones	Teresa Jones is Perry Jones' ex-wife. She's the reason he's after Leslie. 	35
	Leslie handled Teresa's divorce and helped her get away from an abusive 
	situation.
Leila	Leila is the senior cat that belongs to Katherine and Jack Davis, Leslie's 	18
	parents.
Anna Lewis	Anna Lewis was Marge Lewis Talbot's mother and Jeff and Gwen Talbot's 	100
	maternal grandmother. She came to live with them when Jordy Talbot died 
	in a plane crash. She's now in a nearby nursing home with Alzheimer's.
Adam Remington, M.D.	Dr. Remington is a doctor at Rivermont Memorial who specializes in 	?
	infectious diseases. He treated Miriam when she was admitted to the ER.
Jessup "Jessie" Scott	Jessie Scott is Miriam's younger brother who had Down syndrome. He was	?
	 named after his maternal grandfather.
Reverend and Mrs. Scott	Jessie's and Miriam's parents.	?
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Name	Description 	Age
Doc Shea	Doc Shea is the Davis family doctor who came and gave Leslie a sedative 	65
	when she found out about Matt's death.
Jeff Talbot	Jeff Talbot is a psychologist and professor at Rivermont University. He 	43
	has a 14-year-old daughter Celia. He's a widower -- his wife Miriam, a 
	minister in a Rivermont suburban church was killed in a train derailment 4 
	years ago -- in 2005.
Marge Lewis Talbot	Marge Talbot is Jeff's mother and Celia's grandmother. Her husband, Jordy	68
	 Talbot, was an airline pilot, a demigod to his wife and children. Jordy died 
	when Jeff was 14 and Gwen, Jeff's sister, was 12.
Celia Talbot	Celia is Jeff and Miriam Talbot's daughter.	14
Miriam Scott Talbot	Miriam was the wife of Jeff Talbot. She was a minister and died in a train 	43
	derailment in 2005. She met Jeff on a mission to South America right after 
	Jeff earned his doctorate.
Gwen Talbot	Gwen Talbot is Jeff Talbot's younger sister. She is sort of a witch and 	41
	causes trouble about Jeff's hospitalization. She wants to have him sent to a
	 nursing home. She's insistent that he's never going to come out of his 
	coma and needs to be a place that can take care of him. She posititions her 
	opinion as being the best thing for Celia but actually it's her sibling 
	jealousy and rivalry raising its ugly head again. She's a piece of work -- 
	drugs, alcohol, broken marriages, no children, fortunately.
Toby	Toby is Jeff's and Miriam's kitten that served as a surrogate child until 	?
	they got pregnant with Celia.
Jimmy	Jimmy is the orderly in the Emergency Room when Miriam went and found 	?
	out she was pregnant with Celia.
Josh Williams	Josh Williams is Jeff's classmate whose family goes on a mission to South 	43
	America and Jeff goes along. That's where Jeff meets and falls in love with 
	Miriam Scott, whom he marries and who dies in 2005 in a train derailment.
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