Mary Catherine is a girl lives in a house. She and her older sister Constance live in this big house kind of apart from the small New England town that they all grew up or that they both grew up in. The book we get is pretty much just from Mary Cat's perspective, so everything we get we get through her as she begins the book. There is no love loss between her and any of these people. They really don't like the the blackwoods and it's implied that they are a little more well off maybe than some other members of the town.