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Book cover of Ward D
Ward DFreida McFadden

Characters in Ward D

8 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Amy Brenner

    A medical student whose overnight rotation on the locked psychiatric unit turns into a fight to survive the night, while her own buried past resurfaces.

Supporting characters

  • Jade Carpenter

    Amy's estranged best friend from eight years earlier, now a patient on the ward.

  • Dr. Richard Beck

    The physician covering Ward D on the night of Amy's shift.

  • Ramona Dutton

    The nurse working the overnight shift on the ward.

  • Mary Cummings

    A patient on the unit, who keeps a set of sharpened steel knitting needles.

  • William Schoenfeld

    A patient on the unit who is off his medications.

  • Cameron Berger

    A medical-school classmate of Amy's.