Characters

Main couple partners
For appearances, see the chart on the List of Wishful characters page.

Introduced in Once Upon A Coffee: Introduced in To Get Me To You: Introduced in Be Careful, It's My Heart: Introduced in Know Me Well: Introduced in Once Upon A Setup: Introduced in Just For This Moment: Introduced in If I Didn't Care: Introduced in Can't Take My Eyes Off You:
 * Avery Cahill, City Recorder, personal assistant to the mayor
 * Dillon Lange, MBA student
 * Campbell "Cam" Crawford, City Councilman, landscape architect
 * Norah Burke, City Planner and liaison with Peyton Consolidated
 * Miranda Campbell, physician
 * Mitch Campbell, architect
 * Reed Campbell, bookseller
 * Sandra "Sandy" Campbell Crawford, City Mayor
 * Tucker McGee, civil lawyer
 * Tyler Edison, hardware storekeeper
 * Piper Parish, nurse
 * Liam Montgomery, former U.S. Marine Captain, general contractor
 * Riley Gower, pharmacist
 * Judd Hamilton, Wishful Police Officer, later Chief and later County Investigator
 * Autumn Buchanan, librarian and writer
 * Cecily Dixon, socialite and philantropist, later graphic design firm owner
 * Gerald "Trey" Peyton, III, millionaire owner of Peyton Consolidated, real estate firm which becomes the town's main financial backer
 * Brody Jensen, construction manager, formerly with Peyton Consolidated and later on his own
 * Corinne Dawson, former Dinner Belles waitress, later nurse
 * Myles Stewart, owner and editor of the Wishful Observer newspaper
 * Tara Honeycutt
 * Chad Phillips, surgeon
 * Zach Warren, photographer
 * Mary Alice Reed, school teacher
 * Ethan Greer, former U.S. Marshal, succeeds Judd as Wishful Police Chief
 * Hannah Wheeler, interior designer and part-time waitress at Dinner Belles

Secondary characters
Names here will be moved to list above as Kait makes them the main characters in their own stories.
 * Campbell relatives:
 * Helen Campbell
 * Pete & Liz Campbell (parents to Miranda and Mitch)
 * Jimmy & Anita Campbell (parents to Reed and Ava)
 * Montgomery relatives:
 * Molly Montgomery
 * Hamilton relatives:
 * Patty Hamilton,
 * Leo Hamilton
 * Eli Hamilton
 * Applewhite relatives:
 * Evan and Linda Applewhite (Livia and Jace's parents)
 * Livia Applewhite (Jace's sister)
 * Jessie Applewhite (Jace and Livia's cousin)
 * The Casserole Patrol:
 * Maudie Bell Ramsey
 * Betty Monroe
 * Delia Watson
 * The Buckleys:
 * Mama Pearl Buckley, owner of Dinner Belles Diner
 * Omar Buckley, Dinner Belles' chef
 * Vivian Buckley, lawyer and partner to Tucker
 * Violet Buckley, Cam's assistant at the tree nursery
 * George Buckley, City Hall security guard
 * The Daily Grind staff:
 * Cassie Callister, owner
 * Daniel Palmer, barista
 * Wishful Police Department officers and staff:
 * Inez, dispatcher
 * Darius Greeley, officer; becomes husband to Vivian Buckley
 * Other businesses/concerns:
 * Abe Costello
 * Matthew McSweeney, owner of McSweeney's Supermarket
 * Babette Wofford, owner of Brides and Belles
 * Christoff Bergen, former co-worker to Norah and Cecily
 * Beth Carmichael, owner of Dixieland Biscuit Company
 * Reuben Blanchard, owner of boxing gym, former SEAL
 * Town questionable characters (BEWARE)
 * Dave Lautner, village idiot
 * Corbett Raines, clumsy police officer
 * The Hoppers (BEWARE)
 * Gary and Mary Ellen Hopper
 * Amber Hopper Butts, their daughter; enemy to Riley and Piper
 * Clarice Hopper Morris, their daughter and Amber's sister; enemy to Autumn and Miranda