Pretty WittyMiss Gemma Doyle isn't the average 19th-century sixteen-year-old wealthy English girl, though she appears to be at first. We quickly find out that, unlike her peers (and much to her fam...

Little Miss BossyFelicity isn't what we'd call a sweetheart—if anything, she's the opposite. And this girl can be majorly cruel, manipulative, demanding, and cold. But Gemma needs a friend, and b...

Down in the DumpsAnn is like Eeyore, frequently blue and under the only raincloud around. But can you blame her? As the only scholarship student we know of in the story, she is kind of an island in...

Sugar and SpiceOh, beautiful Pippa. She is everything society wants a girl to be: wealthy, gorgeous, thin, proper, and well-mannered—in other words, she knows the rules of the game and plays by t...

AmarThis is Kartik's brother and one of the Rakshana who warns Gemma's mother about Circe at the beginning of the book. He dies trying to protect Virginia Doyle.BrigidThe head servant to Spence and...