Diana Bishop

Diana is a witch who grew up ignoring her power until the situation forced her to learn to use and control it. She is a weaver witch, meaning she can call on all sorts of powers and can create spells of her own rather than depending on the spells already created by other witches. She sees the world in terms of threads, with individual paths that stretch from one person to another, or between objects. She can travel through time by following those threads, which is how Diana and Matthew traveled back to the 1590s.

Diana matures in several ways over the course of this novel. She accepts her role as a member of Matthew's family and becomes a mother to a set of twins. As a mother, she comes to the point of doing what her children need, even when Matthew disapproves. She also matures into...