Audrina’s older cousin and principal companion, a jealous, hostile girl who resents Audrina’s favored place in Damian’s affections.

A boy Audrina meets near Whitefern after he and his mother move into the groundskeeper’s cottage beside the woods.

Audrina’s mother, Damian’s wife, and Ellsbeth’s younger sister; nicknamed Lucky, she is a gifted pianist who abandoned her career for marriage.

Lucietta’s older sister, Vera’s mother, and Audrina’s aunt, a former schoolteacher who shares the Whitefern household with the Adare family.

Audrina’s deceased elder sister and namesake, remembered by Damian as his “first and best Audrina” and associated with Whitefern’s forbidden woods.

Arden’s mother, a former ice skater and double amputee who moves with him into the groundskeeper’s cottage near Whitefern.

A piano teacher whose home Audrina and Vera visit for lessons as Audrina seeks to preserve her mother Lucietta’s musical legacy.