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Book cover of Don't Want You Like a Best Friend
Don't Want You Like a Best FriendEmma R. Alban

Characters in Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

4 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Beth Demeroven

    An anxious debutante in her first London season who must marry well to keep herself and her widowed mother afloat, and finds herself falling for her new friend Gwen instead.

  • Gwen Havenfort

    An earl's daughter in her fourth season with no intention of marrying, who schemes to reunite the girls' widowed parents and ends up facing her own feelings for Beth.

Supporting characters

  • Lady Cordelia Demeroven

    Beth's newly widowed mother, once in love with Lord Havenfort in her own season before family pressure forced her into an unhappy marriage instead.

  • Lord Dashiell Havenfort

    Gwen's widowed father, a rakish earl and member of the House of Lords campaigning for a bill to give women the right to divorce.