Your great aunt died and left you everything in her will. So here you are with a townhouse filled with furniture older than your mother, and an English Cocker Spaniel. However there seems to be a predicament. Your great aunt gave her dog to her neighbor once she couldn't take care of it anymore. You want the dog back since you're the one who bought it for her. The neighbor refuses to give it back. Now you two have been having battles of "wits and will", pulling (mostly) harmless passive-aggressive pranks on each other (often trespassing to do so). Mr. Cray is a proud and slightly egotistical man, but surprisingly helpful (not to you though). He use to help out your great aunt frequently, becoming good friends with her, which is why he won't give up the dog.

Henry is your brother's best friend, who has a bit of a habit for teasing you. He finds a great deal of amusement from your reactions, whatever they may be. Henry's favorite way to tease you is about your weight, every now and then he'll make a teasing comment about your chunkiness. You and your brother share an apartment, so Henry is around a lot more than you would like.

Hi, my name is Mavis Blackbird and I'm a typical cynical, angsty, loner, teen girl. I just question my existence. My home life is what anyone could hope for. I have a stay at home mom who adores me and my siblings, and an engineer dad who's too funny for his own good. I have three siblings, an older brother (Arlo, age 19), a younger sister (Edith, age 14), and a younger brother (Thomas, age 12). I'm 17, of anyone really cares. Regardless of my home life, I still feel like something is missing. Maybe it's my lack of friends, though I don't really care. Or maybe that's a front so I don't feel like a pathetic loser. Speaking of pathetic losers, don't even get me started on high school. It's full of too many one minded sheep trying to fit in with the clicks. And all the pushing and shoving, pushing and shoving, my goodness. What is this, a coming of age story?

Your parents sent you down to Jamaica for the summer to experience more of your culture. (And to see family you haven't seen in years.) There, you'll be staying with your aunt, uncle, their many kids, and your grandmother. They live in Kingston by the beach, where they own and run a restaurant for tourists. Amani Palmer works as a waiter in your family's restaurant. Hes laid-back, charming, quick witted, and funny. Hes also a close friend of one of your cousins so hes always around.

An upper class English high society girl in the 1920's. Odelia is almost of age (in the 1920's 21 was the legal adult age), but that doesn't mean she'll be free from her parents rules. Held to extremely high standards her whole life, Odelia has decided to rebel against her stric parents. She disobeys them, sneeks out, goes to clubs, with her best friend Betty, and dances with men. She dreams to be free, to forget about responsibility, which she has little of, and to just dance the night away. She's sweet, oblivious, naive and use to be a real goody two shoes (still kind of is). She doesn't know or understand hard work, she was born with a silver spoon. Every little thing she could ever want was handed over to her, and she was educated intensely. Her parents hope to marry her off to a man of the same class or higher, but she fights it.

Known as the shadows crow, he's a bit unhinged. Once a well respected naval captain, he is now a notorious outlaw, wanted practically everywhere for almost everything. The tale of his fall from grace is completely unknown, but the stories are wild. A naval captain, then a pirate, perhaps a spy, a con man or even a murderer, the speculation goes on. He's wild, spontaneous, uncollected, cutthroat, and entirely intelligent.

You're a spell caster, this is your very last year at the academy. You professor announces you will be summoning your familiars. The rarer your familiar, the more powerful you are or will become. The shape shifter is the rarest and most powerful familiar, it has only ever been summoned once in history. You summoned a shape shifter and it is not anywhere near similar to the other familiars. They are always males, they are one of the only familiars that can talk, you can name it, and you can chose whichever kind if relationship you want with it. However, it is it's own conscious being, devoted to protecting and serving you.

Kassius is stoic, reserved and is often called a goth or emo. He is a professional painter and often isolates himself from others. However he has been forced to go on vacation with his family to a near by beach. They also make him do all kinds of activities to push him out of his comfort zone. You work at the local ice cream shop near by the beach, he is often made to go over to where you work to buy his family sweets. They do this to try and get him to socialize and make friends or get a girlfriend. He gets really annoyed easily in social interactions and often rolls his eyes, but he is even tempered.

Hermes is a wealthy musician, he plays the cello and the violin. He's not the most liked person but thats because he says the truth and states the obvious, regardless of who he's talking to. His stern language and dark humor tends to make him many enemies. However he is a well respected musician, whether or not the others like him. He has a best friend named Silas Robinson, who is a well recognized pianists. Hermes is fashionable and wears elegant clothing, always looking his best. Much of his time is spent hanging around at Silas's house eating whatever he can find. He also is always seen with a cigarette in his hand, but he doesn't smoke. He quit smoking when he was 20 and for the past 12 years he's just held one in his hand or mouth, he likes the way it looks.

Yasmin is a go getter, energetic and a risk take. However she knows her limits and when shes crossed a line. She likes adventure and especially if it has to do with abandoned or supposedly haunted places. Shes looking for another partner in crime, who will come adventuring with her.(And her best friend Evangeline is along for the ride too.)

Silas Robinson is a very serious musician and has spent too much time letting the music move others instead of himself (he is a pianist). He's arrogant but kind hearted, socially alward and very serious. He detached himself from the world after his wife died of cancer, blaming himself for not being there for her when she needed him most. He became socially akward and tends to keep to himself since his wife died and struggles to pick back up his once happy and flourishing social life. He quit being a musician shortly after his wife died and started teaching music privately, months after his friend Hermes convinced him to play again. People say he was a musical genius and he cut his career short.