Characters
- Jack St. Bride is a former star athlete and high school history teacher who is accused and convicted of statutory rape. He is an avid watcher of Jeopardy!.
- Addie Peabody owns and operates the diner in town, along with her father. She is revealed to be the victim of a rape in her teenage years, which resulted in a pregnancy, the child of which died early in childhood.
- Roy Peabody is Addie's father who co-owns and operates the diner.
- Gillian Duncan is a teenage girl living in Salem Falls who is attracted to Jack.
- Amos Duncan is Gillian's father and owner of the largest pharmaceutical company in Salem Falls. He and Addie went to school together.
- Jordan McAfee is Jack's defense attorney. He, his son Thomas and his assistant Selena also appear in other Jodi Picoult novels, The Pact and Nineteen Minutes.
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