Emma Saylor Payne

Emma is the granddaughter of Mimi and Nana. She is Matthew's daughter and Tracy's step-daughter. In addition Trinity, Bailey, and Jack are her cousins. Gordon is also a relative and Celeste is her aunt.

Emma is a well-behaved child with two best friends and aspirations to go to college. However, the anxiety that she suffers from shows that she is not she is not happy about everything in her life. Her dissatisfaction lies in her mother's unexpected death from a drug overdose and not knowing more about her mother's life and that side of her own personality. She lives wondering how much like her mother is she and whether she could succumb to the same addictions as her mother?

When she unexpectedly stays with Mimi, her maternal grandmother, during the summer, Emma begins a journey that lets her discover her true identity. At times, during the...