White Witch, Black Curse characters

Appears from the start

The witch who leads Vampiric Charms and now studies demon magic under Al. Rachel knows Kisten was murdered but still cannot remember the fatal encounter or name his killer. A new investigation involving damaged auras and missing emotion gives her a possible route toward understanding her own lost memory.

Appears from the start

Rachel's living-vampire partner and church housemate. Ivy shares Rachel's grief over Kisten, supports the new investigation, and remains vulnerable to enemies who can turn intense emotion into a weapon.

Appears from the start

The pixy third partner in Vampiric Charms. Jenks protects the church and supplies field intelligence, treating Rachel's demon lessons and her unresolved memory as shared dangers rather than private problems.

Appears from the start

Rachel's murdered boyfriend. Kisten survives in Rachel's grief and in incomplete recollections of his final night; she knows the relationship they had, but not the identity of the person who killed him.

Appears from the start

Rachel's friend from Mackinaw, who has tried to build a relationship with her after Kisten's death. Marshal cares for Rachel but is increasingly aware that grief, demon danger, and Vampiric Charms leave him outside the center of her life.

Also known as Al

Appears from the start

Rachel's demon teacher. Al presents instruction as a privilege while using every lesson to normalize magic that isolates Rachel from other witches and binds her more closely to him.

First appears in chapter 2

An empath who works with the FIB. Ford reads emotional states that ordinary investigators cannot perceive and helps Rachel examine both the new victims and the damaged portion of her own memory without treating emotion as reliable proof by itself.

First appears in chapter 5

A nineteenth-century witch whose ghost has crossed Rachel's life before. Pierce combines old-fashioned manners with a willingness to use forceful magic, and his attachment to Rachel makes him eager to intervene in dangers he does not fully understand.

First appears in chapter 11

A banshee Rachel has encountered before. Mia feeds on emotion and aura rather than ordinary food, making her presence difficult to prove through conventional evidence and especially dangerous around frightened or grieving victims.

First appears in chapter 13

Mia's young daughter, who shares her mother's need for emotional energy without understanding the human and Inderlander lives consumed to provide it.

First appears in chapter 17

A witch willing to use demon-derived magic for his own advancement. Tom's experiments place him near the same forbidden practices that have made Rachel suspect to orthodox witches, but without her concern for who bears the cost.

First appears in chapter 20

The human FIB detective who has worked beside Rachel on several supernatural cases. Glenn provides police authority and practical support when the current attacks cross the boundary between criminal evidence and predatory magic.