DETECTIVE JANE GRAY MYSTERY SERIES

Special Agent/ Detective

Jane Gray

Abandoned in woods age 3

Adopted & Named by Sheriff King Gray

Sister to Pete Gray (also adopted)

No official birthday.

Doesn't trust people or let them get close.

Best Friends: Liberty Hill & Daisy Stewart

Ex Boyfriends: Dr. Robbie Michaels (Hard feelings toward her.)

Left town after graduation to join the FBI

Unresolved FBI Case- The Collector

Possible challenges for Alice:

1. Trying to balance her job as an FBI agent with her personal life as she is pulled back into her hometown.

2. Struggling to uncover the identity of the person responsible for hurting her father.

3. Dealing with her own emotions in trying to solve the case and avenge her father. She worries she'll lose him. He's the only person she has left besides her brother since no one knows what happened to her parents.

4. Learning how to work with another Detective to uncover the truth.

5. Trying to maintain relationships with her friends in both her hometown and her FBI Partner

6. Overcoming her own feelings of abandonment and insecurity related to her unknown biological parents.

Sheriff

King Gray

Sherriff (Need a town name)

Widower (Alma Gray-died in child birth)

Deceased Child- Mike Gray- Died at age 16 in car accident

Adopted children: Jane and Pete (to fill void left by son)

Slips up and calls Pete by Mike's name.

Old School- hates technology- always wants hardcopy

Respected member of the community.

Family man

Third Generation law enforcement

Lives in Tourist Attraction Haunted Town

Questionable Police tactics- throws locals in same jail cell to work out their differences.

Possible challenges for King

1. Dating Caroline- Hasn't dated since wife's death

2. Professional challenges: As a small town sheriff, King may face challenges such as a lack of resources and budget constraints. He may also face pressure from higher-ups to keep crime rates low.

3. Political challenges: King may face political pressure to take sides in controversial issues or decisions. He may also face criticism from the public for his decisions or views.

4 Moral challenges: King may be faced with moral dilemmas, such as whether to arrest someone he believes to be innocent or to let someone he believes to be guilty go free.

5. Personal challenges: King may struggle with the loss of his son and his feelings of guilt and grief. He may also struggle with the responsibility of his two adopted children, as well as the fear of not being able to provide them answers about their past.

Owner Grey Legends Ghost Tour

Pete Gray

Owner: Ghostly Tours (Needs name)

Adopted son of Sherriff King Gray (the replacement son)

Trouble Maker/ Screw-up

Expert in local folklore & history (due to looking for parents)

Feels pressure and guilt trying to live up to King's expectations and replacement son.

Secretly has submitted DNA and figured out parents- keeping information to himself.

Potential challenges for Pete:

1. Professional challenges: Pete may face challenges in his career as a ghost tour guide, such as dealing with difficult clients and managing his finances.

2. Emotional challenges: Pete may struggle with feelings of guilt and inadequacy, due to his adopted father's expectations and his own feeling of being a replacement son.

3. Personal challenges: Pete may face challenges in keeping his adoption story a secret, as well as dealing with the emotions associated with discovering the identity of his birth parents.

4. Safety challenges: Pete may face safety challenges due to his work in the dark and unknown, as he is often exploring dark and abandoned places.

Veterinarian/ BFF

Daisy Stewart

Veternarian/ Animal Lover

BFF's: Jane/ Liberty/ and her dad

Mother figure/ voice of reason with her friends.

Father Kenny Stewart, a mechanic who was a single father after Daisy's mother was tragically murdered when Daisy was just a teenager.

Daisy's father taught all 3 girls self defense skills and treated them like his daughters- fiercely protective .

She is always rescuing animals in need and bringing them home to care for them.

Her friend Liberty often brings her animals that she finds neglected or in need of saving.

Daisy is a kind and compassionate person, with a strong sense of justice. She is fiercely loyal to her friends and her family, and she is willing to do anything to protect them.

The only way Daisy and her friends can run her father off and get him to leave so they can have privacy is say that they're going to set him up on a date, or they tell him it's time to start dating, then he makes a quick exit.

Daisy's potential challenges:

1. Professional challenges: Daisy may face challenges in her career as a veterinarian, such as dealing with difficult clients and ethical dilemmas.

2. Financial challenges: Daisy may face financial challenges, such as affording medication and supplies for the animals she rescues.

3. Personal challenges: Daisy may face personal challenges, such as navigating her relationships with her friends and father, as well as battling her own feelings of grief and guilt over her mother's death.

4. Safety challenges: Daisy may face safety challenges as a result of her animal rescue work, as she may come across dangerous individuals or animals.

Celebrity Singer/ Passionate Advocate/ BFF

Liberty Hill

Singer

Advocate for social justice.

Speaks out against inequality.

Strong sense of write and wrong.

Never backs down from a challenge.

Free spirit/ big heart/ likes to make people smile

Believes that everyone deserves to be treated with love and respect, no matter their background or beliefs.

Often gets in sticky situation because of her convictions.

Courage and drive keep her out of serious trouble. She's made all kinds of interesting friends through her crusades (even with some shady business owners)

Friendly/ Outgoing- Large network of musical and social friends. People want to help her. They're drawn to her.

Never looses sight of who she is or what truly matters.

Liberty is an advocate for the homeless and has been known to break rules in order to provide them with food or shelter. She also has a tendency to stand up against bullies, which has led her into physical altercations in the past. Though these actions may seem noble, they can cause legal issues for her and put her at risk of harm.

Potential challenges for Liberty

1. Financial challenges: She often works odd jobs for extra money even though her music gig pays well. Some might think that she's using the extra money for drugs, when in reality, she's using or giving it to those in need.

2. Social challenges: Liberty may face challenges due to her outspoken nature, as her views may be unpopular or controversial but she always has a point and can turn people in her favor (One way or another). She's outspoken and has a tendency to show up at town meetings or commissioner meetings to argue her points. They groan when they see her in attendance.

3. Professional challenges: Liberty should be in politics, she can talk anyone into doing anything. But she chose a career in music to aggravate her clients. They signed her up for ballet and the piano, and she taught herself guitar and traded in her ballet slippers for cowboy boots or shit kickers.

4. Personal challenges: Liberty doesn't have any identity issues. She fully expresses herself in her clothes and makeup. She often changes her appearance to suit her mood. And changes her boyfriends as often as she changes the color of her hair. Her family is wealthy well doers in town, and they don't understand her.

Detective

Jack Hardy

A cop's cop.

Doesn't get along well with anyone.

Looks up to King.

By the book kind of guy

Jane's new partner/ push and pull.

Boutique Owner

Caroline Cole

Neighbor/ Likes KIng/ Good Female role model for Jane growing up/ Closest relationship like a mother Jane never had