People

ACOSTA

Grace
Older sister to Tommy; David Wheeler’s high school sweetheart; plans to attend Highpointe College upon graduation; babysits for the Scanlons

Iris
Mother to Grace and Tommy with husband, Kevin

Kevin
Professor at Highpointe College; husband of Iris; father to Grace and Tommy

Tommy
Became friends with Nicole Nash and David Wheeler while an in-patient at Mercy Hospital

Alistair
Butler at Rosemont for over fifty years, now a friendly ghost who lives in the attic

John Allen
Veterinarian and owner of Westbury Animal Hospital, Maggie Martin’s husband, adopted grandfather to baby Julia and twins Sophie and Sarah

Anita Archer
Owner of Archer’s Bridal

Kevin Baxter
Member of Highpointe College Board of Trustees

Marc Benson
Partner of Alex Scanlon, musician

Nigel Blythe
Owner of Blythe Rare Books in London, bought books stolen from Highpointe College Library, poisoned Hazel Harrington, attempted to kill Sunday Sloan and Anthony Plume

Harriet and Larry Burman
Owners of Burman Jewelers

Jeff Carson
Widower; former wife, Millie, died 3 years ago; son Jason and daughter-inlaw Sharon; grandchildren Tyler and Talia; cares about animal shelter; mother, Alma, uncle, William Olsson

Charlotte
Owner of Candy Alley Candy Shop

 

Delgado Brothers

The Delgado Brothers are involved in a scheme to embezzle money from the Westbury Town Workers’ Pension Fund

Chuck
Former Westbury town councilmember; owner of D’s Liquor and Convenience Store

Ron
Investment advisor and CPA; married to William Wheeler’s sister

 

Fitzpatrick

Laura
Owner of Laura’s Bakery; mother of one with husband, Pete

Pete
Owner of Pete’s Bistro, a popular lunch spot for Westbury town councilmembers

Gloria Harper
Resident of Fairview Terraces, married to Glenn Vaughn, acts as surrogate grandmother to David Wheeler

Hazel Harrington
Deceased rare-book librarian at Highpointe College, poisoned by Nigel Blythe

Robert Harris
Rare-book librarian at Cambridge University, friend to Sunday Sloan

 

Haynes

Frank
Repentant crony of the Delgados, Westbury town councilmember, owner of Haynes Enterprises (holding company of fast food restaurants), founder and principal funder of Forever Friends dog rescue, grandson of Hector Martin, married to Loretta Nash, father of twins Bonnie and Branson

Bonnie and Branson
Frank and Loretta’s twins

 

Holmes

George
Emcee of the annual Easter Carnival, father of three with wife, Tonya

Tonya
Westbury town councilmember; close friend of Maggie Martin

Russell Isaac
Westbury town councilmember, inherited auto parts business, former acting mayor of Westbury, involved in scheme to of Delgado brothers

Lyla Kershaw
Works in accounting department at Highpointe College Library; close friend of Sunday Sloan; birth mother of Josh Newlon

Tim Knudsen
Realtor, Westbury town councilmember, married to Nancy, grandfather to Zack

Ian Lawry
Former president of Highpointe College

Ingrid
Haynes family nanny, former pediatric ICU nurse

Juan
Veterinary technician at Westbury Animal Hospital

 

Martin

Amy
Maggie Martin’s daughter-in-law; mother to twins, Sophie and Sarah, with husband, Mike Martin

Hector and Silas
Deceased town patriarchs; Silas (Hector’s father) amassed a fortune from the local sawmill, real estate, and other ventures and built the Rosemont estate; Hector donated his rare book collection to Highpointe College and left his estate to his living heirs—grandnephew, Paul Martin, and grandson, Frank Haynes (Frank’s father was Hector’s illegitimate son)

Maggie
Current owner of Rosemont and president of Highpointe College; widow of Paul Martin; former forensic accountant and mayor of Westbury; married to John Allen; mother to Mike Martin and Susan (Martin) Scanlon; grandmother to Julia Scanlon and twins, Sophie and Sarah Martin

Mike
Maggie Martin’s adult son, lives in California with wife, Amy, and twin daughters,
Sophie and Sarah

Paul
Maggie Martin’s first husband, deceased; embezzled funds while president of
Windsor College; father of Susan (Martin) Scanlon and Mike Martin; had an affair with LorettaNash and fathered Nicole Nash

Sophie and Sarah
Twin daughters of Amy and Mike Martin; close friends of Marissa Nash; Maggie Martin’s granddaughter

Mary
Single mother who is the administrative assistant at Haynes Enterprises Gordon Mortimer: antiques dealer and appraiser

 

Nash

Loretta
Current financial analyst at Haynes Enterprises; married to Frank Haynes; mother to Marissa, Sean, and Nicole, with baby number four on the way; former mistress of Paul Martin

Marissa, Nicole, and Sean
Loretta’s children, adopted by stepfather, Frank Haynes; Marissa (oldest) babysits for the Scanlons and is friends with Maggie Martin’s twin granddaughters; Nicole (youngest) received a kidney from Susan Scanlon after it was discovered that they had the same father, Paul Martin; Sean works as David Wheeler’s apprentice at Forever Friends and the animal hospital

Josh Newlon
Maggie Martin’s administrative assistant; Lyla Kershaw’s birth son; Sunday Sloan’s boyfriend

Sherry and Neil Parker
Sherry is the new veterinarian at Westbury Animal Hospital and her husband, Neil, is a graduate of The Warton School

Anthony Plume
Professor and dean of English Literature at Highpointe College; stole
rare books from the college library and sold them to Nigel Blythe

Jack Rodriguez
David Wheeler’s landlord in California

 

Scanlon

Aaron
Orthopedic surgeon; married to Maggie’s daughter, Susan; father to baby Julia;
brother to Alex

Alex
Attorney who succeeds Maggie Martin as mayor of Westbury; partner of Marc Benson

Julia
Infant daughter of Susan and Aaron Scanlon; Maggie Martin’s granddaughter

Susan (née Martin)
Maggie Martin’s adult daughter; attorney works at brother-in-law Alex’s firm; helped Josh Newlon find his birth mother; nearly died donating kidney to stepsister, Nicole Nash

Sunday Sloan
Rare-book librarian at Highpointe College; friend of Lyla Kershaw; Josh Newlon’s girlfriend

Forest Smith
Attorney at Stetson & Graham; assigned to assist Alex Scanlon; died in a suspicious fall off a bridge

Bill Stetson
Partner at Stetson & Graham, Westbury’s outside law firm

Chief Andrew (Andy) Thomas
Westbury’s chief of police

Joan and Sam Torres
Wife and husband; Maggie Martin’s close friends, who befriended her on her first day in Westbury; Joan works as a police dispatcher, Sam as a handyman

Lyndon Upton
Professor of finance at University of Chicago, former colleague of Maggie Martin’s; volunteered to help with Westbury’s embezzlement case

Glenn Vaughn
Resident of Fairview Terraces; married to Gloria Harper; acts as surrogate grandfather to David Wheeler

 

Wheeler

David
Works with therapy dogs; helps at Forever Friends and Westbury Animal Hospital;
son of William and Jackie Wheeler; Grace Acosta’s boyfriend

Jackie
Wife of disgraced former mayor William Wheeler; mother to David William: former mayor of Westbury convicted for fraud and embezzlement; committed suicide in prison; father to David and husband to Jackie

Yolanda and Malcolm Yates
Malcolm is president of a college and was a colleague of Paul Martin. Yolanda is his wife.

Judy Young
Business-savvy owner of Celebrations Gift Shop and town gossip; close friend of Maggie Martin; maiden name Jorgenson