The Making of The House On Foster Hill - Part #3 & a #Giveaway

Making the characters for The House on Foster Hill was a lot of fun, a lot of structuring with my writing sister, Halee, and a building of personalities. It is very important to me, as a writer, to write characters who are as distinct from each other as possible.

I'd like to introduce you to them today, if you'll humor me.

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Present Day --

Kaine Prescott

Kaine was probably the easiest character for me to create, mainly because her personality is a lot like mine. She's filled with logic and common sense that wars consistently with irrational emotions and an overwhelming sense to fiercely protect those she loves at the expense of herself.

Her background as a social worker has really stolen from her any concept of idealism that people are innately good. But she also hasn't lost hope in humanity. Still, she needs to escape. As a widow, odds have stacked against her lately, and while she believes that something more sinister is at play, others believe her career and husband's death has finally brought Kaine to her knees and taken her sense of reason away.

And maybe they have. Considering she just bought an ancient house, sight unseen, halfway across the country in her great-great grandmother's hometown. Anything to get away, to escape, and to prove to herself that she can, and will survive.

Grant Jesse


Grant Jesse was super fun to write. He was one of the characters who just didn't have a lot of issues. He's the guy-next-door, the stable one, the one who can assess a situation logically and also maintain and element of sensitivity--without being overly sensitive himself.

He's a grief counselor, and probably the very person Kaine would want to avoid, only she doesn't, and since he's innately wired to rescue people and animals, Kaine Prescott sort of brings out the rescuer in Grant. But he also doesn't push his way in, and he certainly doesn't diminish Kaine's independence. Grant compliments her, comes alongside, and every now and then throws in a wicked one-liner to make a point to a stubbornly emotional woman.

Grant doesn't live far from Foster Hill House, and he's a historical-type, so he knows quite a bit of its history. But then, Foster Hill House loses its allure to the locals, but Kaine Prescott has come and now she's reviving Grant's curiosity to uncover the darkness that hovers not far from his own front door.

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Ivy Thorpe


Ivy was the most difficult character for me to write. She is so not like me, and yet, she is so likable. Ivy feels everything. She was born with an empathetic soul, one that breaks as hard as the person next to her experiencing the tragedy. Long after people have moved on, Ivy is still lingering, dwelling, and analyzing every person who has passed. She's unwilling to let them be forgotten, she's aching for those left behind, and she's a seeker of resolution, of justice, and of assigning a reason to the pain. When Ivy is faced with bidding farewell to an unknown young woman, her heart is shattered. No one should die without a name, without someone to grieve for them, and without a legacy to be remembered.

But Ivy soon finds out that sometimes, when you attempt to expose someone's life, you open wide the doors to unimaginable pain, tragedy, and triumph that can leave a living soul reeling from the shock of it all. And, Ivy isn't one to bounce back quickly or easily from grief. She has held hands with grief for years, and she hasn't encountered anyone who can convince her to release the grave and embrace life.

Joel Cunningham


Joel left his closest friend, Ivy Thorpe, years before, but now he has returned to face not only her, but his childhood. He was an intriguing hero to write. A bit of an alpha male, hard core self-confident, and high sense of logic with very little room for theory and feelings.

Yet deep inside, Joel has a heightened sense of loyalty and a deep rooted fear that he has lost opportunities that at one time, may have led him on a far different path in life. While his own past's circumstances were far from in his control, and his life's directions were always decided upon by someone else, he's defined himself now. He has found success as a detective, been saved from the streets by a well-meaning police officer, and seeks to bring reason and justice back to the hometown he once lived in as an orphan.

But no one has wounded him as deeply as Ivy Thorpe. Still, he can muster the resolve to deal with those wounds, because a murder has come to the house on Foster Hill. That abandoned old house they used to play in as children. Laughing and dreaming in the shadows. Never once imagining that the terrors inside the house would laugh in the face of the tragedy Joel and Ivy experienced as young people just outside the reach of the old oak trees' branches.


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So, now you've met the main characters of The House on Foster Hill, and still, two more are unaccounted for: The house on Foster Hill, and a young woman, dead at the base of the hill, whose body tells a story and whose name all of them are desperate to uncover.

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Professional coffee drinker & ECPA/Publisher's Weekly best-selling author, Jaime Jo Wright resides in the hills of Wisconsin writing spirited turn-of-the-century romance stained with suspense. Coffee fuels her snarky personality. She lives in Neverland with her Cap’n Hook who stole her heart and will not give it back, their little fairy TinkerBell, and a very mischievous Peter Pan. The foursome embark on scores of adventure that only make her fall more wildly in love with romance and intrigue.

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