- Name: Madison Avery
- Status: Dead (and not loving it), with the illusion of a body courtesy of a strange amulet
stolen from her killer
- Skills: It's still a mystery, but there is something powerful right below the surface
- Favorite Saying: "Puppy presents on the rug!"
- Name: Josh Daniels
- Status: Alive and getting cuter by the minute
- Skills: Does being cute count? If not, then how about being decent at track?
- Favorite Saying: "It was just a dream, right?"
- Name: Barnabas
- Status: Light reaper assigned to prevent Madison's death, which obviously did not go as planned
- Skills: Ability to alter human memories
- Favorite Saying: "Madison, you have no idea the trouble you caused!"
- Name: Guardian, Reaper-Augmented Cherub, Extinction Security (G.R.A.C.E.S. one-seventy-six), aka "Grace"
- Status: First-sphere guardian angel assigned to keep Madison away from trouble-an impossible task
- Skills: A field of immunity that protects those around her (and a way with annoying limericks)
- Favorite Saying: "I'm a guardian angel, not a miracle worker."
- Name: Chronos, Ron for short
- Status: Light timekeeper who lives on earth and believes only in free will
- Skills: The ability to manipulate time—and people
- Favorite Saying: "Oh, look at the time, I must be off."
- Name: Nakita
- Status: Dark reaper with supermodel looks and a taste for scything
- Skills: The ability to ruthlessly end a person's life before they have a chance to turn evil…but somewhat lacking in people skills
- Favorite Saying: "I will rip out your tongue and feed it to my hellhounds!"
- Name: Kairos, aka Seth, the sexy senior who killed Madison (right after he kissed her, mmmm)
- Status: Previous dark timekeeper whose amulet is providing Madison with the illusion of a body
- Skills: Creates amulets for reapers and angels, can read the lines of time and figure out when a person is fated to turn bad. Oh, and he's a good kisser…
- Favorite Saying: "I will be immortal!"
Dark Reapers
Sent to kill people when the probable future shows that they are going to make decisions contrary
to the grand schemes of fate.
Light Reapers
Reapers who Ron sends to save those people from an untimely death, to ensure humanity's right of freewill.
Amulet
A stonelike necklace that makes it possible to communicate beyond the earth’s sphere. Each amulet has its own aura or
song that matches with its owner.
Dark Wings
Creatures that feed on the souls of those killed by dark reapers, typically appearing right before a scything takes place.
Most of the time they go unnoticed by the living, but can resemble crows when a soul is in danger.
Timekeepers
Both the light and dark reapers have their own timekeeper. Each one is responsible for watching the strands of time to determine when a
person must be scythed—or saved.