female protagonist

blue-green eyes, wavy dirty-blonde hair with long sideswept bangs. jeans and flats. square-rimmed glasses to hide her face. ex-husband named rowan.

• emma charlotte cavanaugh

best friend

dyed red hair, blue eyes, artistic and sarcastic.

• zoe eloise edison

male protagonist

brown eyes, dark curly hair that falls into his face. very much a joker, doesn't take anything seriously.

• joshua james cohen

emma's baby

• gabriella wren

<<flashbacks to negative birth experience - turns out to be g's birth>>

emma and josh's baby

• poppy estella

"working in a hospital i've come to expect the unexpected. there's always an umbilical cord wrapped around a neck, that baby who was fine two minutes ago just stopped breathing, and suddenly there's a pool of blood on the floor that nobody can explain. so i'm used to things not going to plan, no matter how much i want them to. it just sucks when the thing not going to plan is my life."