Golden Girl
Characters in Golden Girl
9 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Vivian Howe
Nantucket novelist and mother of three, killed in a hit-and-run; narrates the story from the afterlife over her final summer watching her family.
Supporting characters
Willa Howe
Vivi's eldest daughter, pregnant and navigating a difficult pregnancy after prior miscarriages while grieving her mother.
Carson Howe
Vivi's middle daughter, a hard-partying twentysomething whose heavy drinking and reckless choices worry her mother from the Beyond.
Leo Howe
Vivi's son, caught in an on-again, off-again relationship with a high-maintenance girlfriend over the course of the summer.
JP Howe
Vivi's ex-husband, who helps hold the family together through their grief over the summer following her death.
Cruz DeSantis
A young Nantucket local and Leo's childhood friend who becomes a focus of suspicion in the investigation into Vivi's death.
Ed Kapenash
Nantucket's police chief, a recurring figure in Hilderbrand's Nantucket novels, who investigates the hit-and-run that killed Vivi.
Savannah (Golden Girl)
Vivi's lifelong best friend on Nantucket, who looks after her children through the summer following her death.
Martha (Golden Girl)
Vivi's Hermès-scarf-wearing guide in the Beyond, who grants her a window to watch her family and three "nudges" to intervene.