Kara Beckworth

Blood Bound

• Thirteen¹¹³

Werewolf

Blood Bound

• Three years ago, survived an attack by a rogue werewolf at ten years old¹¹⁰
• Her father built a cage in the basement and every full moon he chains her and locks her in¹¹¹
• Two months ago, she broke the chain to her collar. Her father got a thicker chain but she gouged a hole in the cement¹¹¹

Bone Crossed

• Did fine last moon. Give her a few months, and she'll be fully in control¹⁰⁷

Roses in Winter

• The idea that she even could control the wolf was very, very new to her, and real control was months if not years away²⁷⁸
• Hadn't taken her wolf's shape when it hadn't been forced upon her by the moon's call²⁸⁴
• She's too dominant to go without challenge, and she's too young to prevail²⁸⁷
• Smallish half-grown werewolf²⁸⁹
• Can take charge almost as soon as she's out of sight of the house. She can't change back on her own, but she thought she figured out how to do it. How it should feel to start the change on her own²⁹¹
• Built walls between herself and the wolf that they wouldn't have had when she was first Changed²⁹¹
• Changed herself³¹⁴

Aspen Creek Pack AKA Marrok Pack

Father - John Beckworth

Roses in Winter

• Not a chatterer²⁸¹
• Raised in the middle of the city²⁹²

Education

Burn Bright

• Keeps getting letters from her teachers: 'Kara is hardworking and intelligent. I am concerned that she has no friends among her peers. She doesn't participate in group work or in any outside sports activities'- and variations of that¹⁷³

Blood Bound

• Any child who survives a werewolf attack before adolescence has willpower to spare¹¹²

Roses in Winter

• Wasn't used to someone defending her²⁷⁹
• Had a backbone. She was born to be a protector, just needed to grow up²⁹⁸

Blood Bound

• Tried to commit suicide¹¹⁴

Roses in Winter

• Had an awkward gracefulness³¹¹

Roses in Winter

• Likes greenhouses²⁷⁶
• Doesn't want to be a werewolf²⁹⁴

Kara and Asil

Burn Bright

• Kara was a particular favorite of Asil's¹⁷¹

Roses in Winter

• Kara's safety had become important to Asil²⁸²
• Asil's wolf was unhappy with Kara and will enforce his dominance any way that he needs to²⁹⁴
• Belonged to Asil²⁹⁶

Kara and the Wolves

Blood Bound

• Helped by Josef Riddlesback¹¹³
• Bran talked to Kara. Her father didn't know what he said, but he hadn't seen her this happy in years¹⁸¹

Burn Bright

• As the youngest werewolf in the pack, Kara had dealt with her share of overprotectiveness¹³⁶
• Kara liked Leah, but she wasn't unaware of Leah's games¹³⁷

Roses in Winter

• Was the Marrok's current puzzle²⁷⁵
• The werewolf that changed her told Kara's parents that they should let him kill her. When they'd refused, he'd told them to keep her away from other werewolves²⁷⁵
• Bran hadn't allowed her to challenge him²⁹⁴
• The pack bonds flashed with eager anger of the collected pack when they saw that Kara was injured. She belonged to them, too³⁰⁴
• If Asil had not stopped the attackers before they hurt Kara worse, Bran would have killed these men and their Alpha as well³⁰⁷

Kara and her Parents

Burn Bright

• Leah makes her write a letter every week to her parents, most of which are four sentences long because Bran imposed that rule after her first letter was 'Dear Dad, I'm alive. Kara'¹⁷³

Roses in Winter

• Her father had been sent back into the real world because his fear of her wolf was interfering with her ability to control herself. Neither she nor her father had been happy²⁷⁸
• Her parents are separated because her mother is scared of Kara, and her father is mad at her about it²⁸⁰
• Kara's dad is bringing her mom to visit in Aspen Creek³¹⁴