| Sydney |
Allan | Community member. |
| Jacob |
Allen | One of the immigrants. |
| Eddy |
Arnold | Musician. |
| Camille |
Baker | Former Tobacco Queen. |
| Shady |
Bale | Community member. |
| Cory |
Beck | Community member. |
| Dr. John |
Bell | Superintendent at Virginia Colony. |
| Betty Lee |
Blanchard | One of Mr. Early's customers. |
| Howard |
Branscum | Local man attending Tobacco Festival. |
| Ethel |
Buck | Lena's wardmate. |
| Mr. Doug |
Clancy | Man who forced Silas to evacuate. |
| Katrina Pauline |
Conti | Lena and Enzo's mother. Aka: Mutti. |
| Gertie |
Corbin | Silas's acquaintance. |
| Sandy |
Craig | One of Mr. Early's customers. |
| Dr. |
Crampton | Doctor at Virginia Colony. |
| Granny |
Creed | Local healer and community member. |
| Jonathan |
Dankworth | A British officer. |
| Sheriff |
Dixon | Local law enforcement official. |
| Mr. |
Early | Owner of the local gristmill in the Blue Ridge Mountains. |
| Arthur |
Estabrook | Professor at Eugenics Records Office. |
| Dr. |
Fischer | Doctor at Virginia Colony. |
| Dewey |
Fray | Seller of sorghum molasses. |
| Bobbi Jo |
Gately | Adult persona of Bonnie. |
| Ella |
Gianni Conti | Lena's two-year-old daughter. |
| Arlene |
Hoy | Dice's wife. |
| Roy |
Jenkins | Community member. |
| Jeanie |
Lambert | Girl sent to Virginia Colony. |
| Nellie |
McCauley | One of Mr. Early's customers. |
| Judd |
McDaniel | Teensy's husband. |
| Teensy |
McDaniel | Silas's cousin. |
| Ivan |
McDougle | Professor at Eugenics Records Office. |
| Carla |
Müller | Lena's friend and neighbor. |
| Enzo |
Nikolas Conti | Lena's teenage brother. |
| George |
Pollock | Greedy local businessman. |
| Homer |
Ring | Supplier of regular flour. |
| Penelope |
Rodgers | Student at Sweet Briar College. |
| Arthur |
Rothstein | A commissioned photographer. |
| Magdalena Sofia |
Russo Conti | The protagonist; a young German immigrant mother striving to protect her child. Aka: Lena. |
| Georgia |
Ryan | Bonnie and Ella's adoptive mother. |
| Matthew |
Ryan | Bonnie and Ella's adoptive father. |
| Ole |
Sal | A mule. |
| Massimo |
Salvatore | One of the immigrants. |
| Granny |
Sawyer | A Sawyer. |
| Mandel |
Sherman | A psychologist. |
| Frank |
Sinatra | American singer and actor. |
| Miss Miriam |
Sizer | Temporary summer schoolteacher. |
| Elijah |
Spielman | One of the immigrants. |
| Widow |
Spinney | A tragic local figure. |
| Roy |
Stanton | Supplier of honey and maple syrup. |
| Mrs. |
Tucker | Lena's landlady. |
| Commissioner |
Williams | Immigration official at Ellis Island. |
| Bonnie |
Wolfe | Silas's daughter. |
| Celia Iris |
Wolfe | Silas's wife. |
| Jack Henry |
Wolfe | Silas's young son. |
| Silas Alexander |
Wolfe | A gruff, widowed distant relative of Lena's family. |
| Beulah Mae |
| Community member. |
| Bobby Joe |
| McDaniel child. |
| Bobby Roy |
| Hollis's brother. |
| Buttercup |
| A mule. |
| Caroline |
| Bonnie's teacher. |
| Carrie |
| Buck's daughter. |
| Charlene June |
| McDaniel's oldest daughter. |
| Charlie |
| Ella's husband. |
| Clary |
| Hoy's son. |
| Dale |
| Hollis's second cousin. |
| Dale |
| Bonnie's ex-husband. |
| Dice |
| Silas's friend. |
| Emmet |
| Luke's father. |
| Flora |
| Granny's sister. |
| Garth |
| Early's grandchild. |
| Georgie |
| Wolfe child. |
| Gisele |
| One of Enzo's children. |
| Herbert |
| Corbin's son. |
| Hermann |
| Müller's husband. |
| Hollis |
| Beulah Mae's husband. |
| Irene |
| Nurse at Virginia Colony. |
| Jacob |
| McCauley's son. |
| Janie Sue |
| McDaniel child. |
| Jeramiah |
| Wolfe child. |
| Jerilyn |
| Lena's wardmate. |
| Jessomay |
| One of Bonnie's playmates. |
| Lucy |
| Teensy's friend. |
| Luke |
| Flora's husband. |
| Lydia |
| Stanton's wife. |
| Mabel |
| Desk nurse at Virginia Colony. |
| Mary Frances |
| Blanchard's daughter. |
| Matilda Grace |
| Wolfe child. |
| Miles |
| Bonnie's new husband. |
| Olivia |
| Baker's sister. |
| Otto |
| One of Enzo's children. |
| Poppy |
| A rag doll. |
| Rory |
| Ella's daughter. |
| Rosie |
| Rory's twin sister. |
| Ruby Ann |
| One of Bonnie's playmates. |
| Suzanne |
| Enzo's wife. |
| Sylvia |
| Lena's wardmate. |
| Tad |
| Early's grandchild. |
| Vater |
| Mutti's husband. |
| Virgil |
| Silas's acquaintance. |
