Stephanie

Stephanie is one of the narrative's main characters. She is Miles' mother and a blogger who writes about issues related to motherhood. She thinks that Emily is her best friend, and she has a romantic relationship with Sean when she thinks that Emily is dead.

As the beginning of the narrative, Stephanie portrays herself in her blog as an enthusiastic mother and a person who is there to help other mothers who are like her in trying to figure out things to do to be a good mother. However, she is not happy with her life and is not the good person she pretends to be. She is lonely as a widow who is also a mother. She longs for her past life in which she lived and worked in New York City. In addition, she has dark secrets and she sees the consequences of her forbidden actions...