Sloane is the Vice President of North American Legal Affairs at Truviv, an athletic wear corporation in Dallas. As a wealthy, highly ambitious corporate attorney, she constantly projects an image of professional perfection while secretly managing severe stress over her teenage daughter's bullying. She harbors a deep resentment toward Ames Garrett, rooted in an affair they had early in her career that he continues to hold over her head.

Ardie is a lawyer in the Truviv legal department who actively rejects traditional corporate beauty standards, presenting herself in comfortable, unfashionable clothing. Recently divorced, she channels much of her energy into caring for her adopted son and despising Ames Garrett. She is blunt, fiercely loyal, and willing to use her legal expertise to help the working-class people the rest of the office ignores.

Grace is a wealthy, conventionally beautiful attorney at Truviv who has recently returned from maternity leave. Raised in a conservative debutante environment, she often defends traditional patriarchal norms and initially gives men the benefit of the doubt. Secretly suffering from severe sleep deprivation and unacknowledged postpartum depression, she lies to her husband and coworkers to secure moments of rest in hotel rooms or the office pumping room.

Ames is the Senior Vice President of North American Legal Affairs at Truviv and the direct superior to Sloane, Ardie, and Grace. Following the sudden death of the CEO, he is positioned as the top candidate to take over the company. He uses his corporate power to target young, attractive female employees while dismissing the complaints of older women as hysteria.

Rosalita is a single mother who has worked as a cleaner at Truviv for years. She operates invisibly around the wealthy executives, carefully navigating the racist and classist assumptions of the corporate environment. Her primary goal is to secure a better future for her academically gifted son, which requires her to maintain her poorly paid, demeaning job.

Katherine is a young, conventionally beautiful attorney recently hired at Truviv after being fired from a previous firm in Boston for whistleblowing. Slated to report to Sloane, she is instead immediately co-opted by Ames, who sets her up in an expensive hotel and gives her high-level assignments. She is deeply guarded about her past and fiercely focused on her career.

Cosette is a relationship partner with Truviv and a former college classmate of Sloane Glover. Despite Sloane helping her secure her lucrative position, Cosette represents the corporation when legal action is taken against Ames. She is a sharp, strategic litigator willing to weaponize the women's personal lives to protect the company's interests.

Elizabeth is a seasoned corporate attorney who served as Sloane's mentor at a previous firm. She is the first person who warned Sloane about Ames Garrett's predatory behavior. She believes deeply that information is power and encourages women to share their experiences to survive the corporate world.

Al is the Human Resources director at Truviv. He represents the systemic failure of corporate protections, steering women toward useless hotlines and investigating complaints by reporting directly to the men being accused. He is entirely unhelpful and deeply invested in the company's status quo.

Abigail is Sloane and Derek's teenage daughter. She is the target of severe, gendered cyberbullying and physical harassment at her middle school. Her struggles deeply impact Sloane, fueling her mother's zero-tolerance approach to misogyny and inspiring Sloane's fight against the school district.

Derek is Sloane's husband and an employee in the same school district that their daughter Abigail attends. He often feels emasculated by Sloane's higher salary and resents her aggressive legal maneuvering against his employer, preferring to keep his head down and avoid conflict.

Salomon is Rosalita's academically gifted son. Raised entirely by his single mother, he is completely unaware of the sacrifices she makes at the Truviv office to afford his tutoring and private school applications. He is partially deaf in one ear.

Liam is Grace's husband. He is oblivious to the severity of Grace's postpartum depression and her exhaustion, often pressing her for intimacy and suggesting they have a second child while she is still recovering from the first.

Tony is Ardie's ex-husband, whose infidelity caused the end of their marriage. He has since remarried a younger woman named Braylee. Despite his cheating, he is a dedicated father to their adopted son, Michael.

Bobbi is Ames's wife. She is a wealthy, traditional Christian woman who turns a blind eye to her husband's infidelities and aggressive behavior. She actively defends patriarchal norms and blames the women who accuse her husband of harassment.

Crystal is a 20-year-old cleaner at Truviv who works closely with Rosalita. She is pregnant and navigating the difficult physical realities of manual labor while avoiding the predatory advances of the cleaning foreman.

Desmond is the CEO of Truviv whose unexpected death on March 20 sets the events of the novel in motion. His passing creates a power vacuum that Ames Garrett attempts to fill.

Principal Clark oversees the middle school that Abigail attends. He embodies institutional complacency, frequently minimizing the sexual harassment and bullying faced by young girls by dismissing it as harmless pranks.

Helen is an attorney who agrees to represent Sloane, Grace, and Ardie on a contingency basis in their lawsuit against Truviv. She took the case as a favor because Sloane previously helped her son secure an internship.

Cliff is a reporter for The Dallas Morning News who is investigating the BAD Men List and the sexual harassment allegations at Truviv. He frequently digs for scoops from the women involved.

Oksana is Sloane's personal trainer. She reveals that women in service industries, like the trainers at the gym, have developed their own covert systems for identifying and warning each other about predatory men.