19-Early 40s female; narrator and heroine of the story. Beautiful and intense. In her youth was known as “wild betsy” Was wild and fiery in her early 20s and after the loss of her husband, home and ...

4-8 year old little girl; deeply heartbroken over the death of her mother and little sister, unassuming and trusting in the bible verses she hears as a child that help her to cope through the storms ...