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Book cover of House of Salt and Sorrows
House of Salt and SorrowsErin A. CraigSisters of the Salt, book 1

Characters in House of Salt and Sorrows

7 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Annaleigh Thaumas

    The sixth-born of the twelve Thaumas sisters, who grows suspicious that her sisters' deaths are no accident and investigates the curse said to haunt her family.

Supporting characters

  • Verity Thaumas

    The youngest of Annaleigh's surviving sisters, one of the three young "Graces" alongside Honor and Mercy.

  • Cassius Corum

    A charming, mysterious young man Annaleigh meets amid the sisters' secret nightly balls, and the center of her growing romance.

  • Fisher (House of Salt and Sorrows)

    A childhood friend of Annaleigh's and the son of the family's longtime maid, apprenticing under the island's light-keeper.

  • Camille Thaumas

    Annaleigh's eldest surviving sister, and next in line to inherit their father's dukedom of the Salann Islands.

  • Eulalie Thaumas

    One of Annaleigh's sisters, whose recent death is the one Annaleigh becomes convinced was no accident.

  • Morella (House of Salt and Sorrows)

    Annaleigh's young stepmother, who arrived at Highmoor after the sisters' own mother died and unsettles the household.