A Work In Progress that is. My latest novel happens to take place in my favorite era: The American Civil War.
So I'm going to do what my friend Mirriam does. (hehe. Stole your idea!) I'm going to do a character intro along with a photo of an actor I think could play my character.
First up...my first Main Character.
Keith Grahm (played by Kiefer Sutherland)
This character was inspired by a dream. No joke.
(I think I've been watching way too much 24 on Netflix!)
Keith is a Union Captain. His entire brigade died in battle, yet by some miracle he survived. He now no longer carries the visible wounds, but the internal wounds are destroying him. He lives with guilt and despair. His only joy is found in his wife Loretta and her twin nieces Evaline and Jacqueline. He is 42.
Loretta Beaufont Grahm (played by Daniela Denby-Ashe)
Loretta is Keith's wife and proud of it! She is a fragile woman in body, but strong in spirit. Her strength has helped Keith over the 15 years of their marriage. Being so frail, she has failed to carry all of her 8 pregnancies to term. Now she is 8 months pregnant. She has a nagging fear that she will not survive childbirth, yet she never tells Keith. Her cousin, is Louise Talcott by her mother's sister. She is 36.
Evaline and Jacquline Beaufont (played by Maggie Elizabeth Jones
These twin girls are a delight in the Beaufont home. Keith makes it his special duty to keep them smiling and giggling. They take a special liking to Marie. They are 8.
Marie Amos (played by Liv Tyler)
Marie is a young, sweet Northern girl who has spent the last 4 years in the South on her late grandfather's farm. Gentle and kind, she took up the responsibility of teaching the young slave children. Her father freed them when he inherited the farm and encouraged them to stay as hired help. When her father, Samuel, and her two older brothers, Joshua and Daniel, enlist in the Union army, she is left with the Talcotts. Their "hired hands" are free to go North or to go looking for their families. At the Talcotts, she and Louise are always fighting and exact opposites, but when it counts, they are there for each other. She is 19.
Louise Talcott (played by Keeley Hawes)
Louise is a very determined flirt, not to mention quite ditzy. She is very naive and every inch a southern belle.
When she arrives in Baltimore, she instantly develops a crush on her Keith and makes no effort to hide it. Shamelessly she openly flirts with him and totally disregards any efforts of others to deter her.
She is 18.
There are more key characters, but that is all I have time for right now.
I can't wait to really dig into it!!!
