Fairfax: cancer survivor; friend of Nancy Plumb; married to Mike
Nancy: meeting planner; single friend of Fairfax; daughter of Ruth Plumb (deceased)
Mike: Fairfax’s husband; insurance company executive
Max: Mike’s artist brother who has a crush on Nancy
Lucinda: Cuban-American mother of Mike and Max; lives in Miami
Will: oldest son of Fairfax and Mike; attends the University of Florida
Jack: youngest son of Fairfax and Mike; matriculates to Davidson College
Peter Redmond: hematologist doctor and friend of Fairfax and Nancy
Henry: Nancy’s retired father who lives in Vilano Beach
Blanche: Henry’s girlfriend
Adam Ainsley: Nancy’s crush from high school; the one who got away
Angela: teacher and neighborhood friend of Nancy and Fairfax; married to Nate, mother of Evan
Nate: Angela’s psychotherapist husband
Beth Anne: friend of Nancy and Fairfax from high school; married with five young children
Janey: neighborhood friend
Rod Capper: Nancy’s boss at the North Florida Medical Society
Martha: Nancy’s former co-worker at the North Florida Medical Society
Ruth Plumb: Nancy’s mother, Henry’s wife; died in 2014
Genevieve Fitch: Fairfax’s mother who died in 1986