FIVE LIARS CHARACTERS

Born and raised outside of Miami, she has spent her entire life as a true homebody. With history there, her great grandparents fled the ruins of political and social welfare of Cuba during the 1930s giving an opportunity for their family’s future. For generations, the family tree grew smaller and smaller, leaving Olivia Jones the only girl and descendant of her family.

Her two best girlfriends, Kenna and Keira, have always been by her side. Kenna and Keira figured the shy girl in the second grade classroom seemed too alone and made their two person relationship into a group of 3. The three became inseparable and wherever they went or did, everyone expected the three girls together. Think, the Bratz girl group. She found her true sisters.

Going to college at the University of Miami with a fashion designing dream, she and the two girls realize there is a much bigger world than they were used to. Meeting Chase and Dallas as they were leaving their fraternity, they add them into their group when the girls realize they are alone, too. Dallas and Olivia eventually find each other admirable and loving, and begin to date after constant banter of “who will finally have the balls to admit they are obviously in love”.

One night, after 3 years of pure college fun, a night out falls to ruins, enough to alter the paths of their lives and decisions for the rest of their lives. Who lied? Who betrayed who? Was it one of the three best friends or one of the boys they let into their lives?

You never know who you let into your life.

From the moment she was born, Keira Adler was a fighter. She was known around her Miami suburban neighborhood as a competitive and determined child. She was the outgoing and challenging one, someone most children would be intimidated by. Someone like little Kenna wouldn’t dare to go near. Her only brother was 10 years older than her and very vacant from their life as well as her father. Her dad was never around because her parents were divorced. After her mom received an extensive job offer, they move into a larger neighborhood on the other side of town. Keira and Kenna met each other by their parents, who connected through her moms new job. Keira saw an opportunity to have a friend to look after, as Kenna wasn’t the one to stick up for herself very often and wouldn’t speak up half the time. Keira was midnight rain, hard, dark but brave, Kenna was her opposite, sunshine, kind, loving, soft-spoken. They were each others perfect fit.

Keira was the first to spot Olivia in the corner of the room at her new school. Seeing her in the same format as her new best friend Kenna, she recruited another lost soul under her wing. If Kenna or Olivia wouldn’t speak up, Keira would- she was the voice of the group, never afraid of anything they did. She would be the first to explore the abandoned houses they went to, the one to yell back at strangers who cat called, the brave one to crawl into the dumpster when Kenna thought she lost her favorite pair of sunglasses. She was the big sister Kenna and Olivia never had.

As she got older, so did her body which molded into a form irresistible to everyone around her. They ate her up; her incredible fashion, her faux rich lifestyle for social media, her adventurous nightclub nights with famous celebrities which she only told Kenna and Olivia about. She was wild like a forest fire. No one could look away from her and loved the red and orange coming from her flames. The it-girl everyone wanted to be.

When the three best friends went to University of Miami together, she was practically glued to everything party labeled but never left Kenna or Olivia behind. She kept them locked between her arms, wherever they went and when they met Dallas and Chase, they were the first men that never looked at her as a sex symbol. She was the last to accept that they were apart of the group but never regretted it after that.

Until the night that changed everything and for the first time ever, secrets were kept from each other and they were deadly. The tight band she and her best friends had were held to the things that she never thought would be tethered to- a liar, a cheater and a murder.

When someone you love leaves, you can’t let them go. And when you finally chase after them, everything has already changed.**

Growing up with gated communities and large canopy beds with big teddy bears as roommates, Kenna Quinn was the daughter of a wealthy family- the Quinn Law Firm- most known to people when they are in trouble with the law and have extreme wealth in the back of their pocket. And when people see Kenna, they think of Barbie in IRL. When she was growing up, parents would joke about her being ripped off by Barbie and Disney Princesses. When her parents were told that, they put her into acting. Kenna played multiple child roles in middle aged movies and comedies, before quitting to go to school. To her families surprise, Kenna’s dream was to be apart of her family’s legacy. Coming from old money and speaking four languages, Keira and Olivia or her classmates would never have guessed that sweet, shy and calm Kenna was from one of the richest families in Miami.

She would cry when her mom killed a bug, she would have tea parties with her teddy bears before Keira came along and made sure every bear had their own tiara, cup, and cookie, leaving no stuffed animal out. She would make sure every animal felt safe and loved at every brunch and dinner party her parents would bring her to in her best and finest dresses by holding them and petting them every chance she got.

Her kindness was never walked on however, because with Keira and Olivia by her side. If there was ever a threat to her well being, such as a raise in a voice from someone or a wrong look, Keira and Olivia would protect her in a heartbeat.

Coming out of high school as head cheerleader, class president and salutatorian, she had multiple scholarships to University of Miami, even when her family had enough money for her education. Her hard work never overshadowed her personality. Like her golden girl status, her loyalty and light never dimmed with her friends and family. Instantly seeing good in people, she welcomed Dallas and Chase with open arms even after Keira whispered to her about how to be careful around boys they really didn’t know.

And how well do they know each other? Like the back of their hands. But after Kenna figures out what happened the night of murder, she begins to question everything she’s ever known. The protection her friends give her is far too suspicious.

The full moon shining bright in the night still will have a dark side to it even if it’s invisible to the eye. People *do* change.

Josie is from Crickett, a small town in Indiana. Born from a family of immigrants, she struggled in the heart of the midwest not just with fitting in with her peers around her but with her identity. Leaving the small town a few days after graduating high school, she found herself lost again at the seemingly trustworthy and popular college, University of Michigan. She joined a sorority and worked internships in Chicago with graphic design companies during the summer but still felt as if there was a big hole to fill. After graduating, her grandmother died, giving Josie most of her will, and with what she received, she fled east, stopping where the country ended in Richmond, VA. She felt she wasn’t running away from anything, unlike Olivia, but running towards something. Her plan consisted to keep moving up the coast to NYC eventually, but paused her trip when she found Olivia, desperately needing a roommate - at a temporary place for both of them.

Her and Olivia got along well, and while Josie lived off of her grandmothers money, Olivia worked a normal life Josie never thought about. They both knew not to ask each other the details of their own personal life as they both knew this was a temporary pact, for there was no point to get close to someone you would never really see again…

Dallas was born into a popular family who worked the mechanics and technicians of West Palm. With an average childhood, he grew up in his father’s shop and mother’s office, always interested in what they were doing and fascinated with their work rather than school. He was known for his absence and the teachers knew his parents knew he was missing school, so when the state threatened Dallas’s parents with juvenile court, they packed his lunch every day before school, and promised access to bigger projects at their places over the weekend if he went. Bribery wasn’t always the plan but when his parents began to give him a weekly allowance to stay away from their work and go to school, he quickly learned the idea of a possible career for him. Marketing and sales. When he worked his way up in the family business, attending and expanding business across the bridge to Palm beach, he realized a new way to become successful- a degree. Accepted into University of Miami was the beginning of following in his parent’s footsteps in his own way, rather than the traditional way he realized he didn’t want.

He met Chase Dean while rushing a fraternity, thinking it could be a good branch for opportunities down the road, but when him and Chase got closer and they began to spiral into drugs and alcohol, he debated on dropping out of school. Afraid of the fall out and realized he would risk his entire future, he left the fraternity scene and refocused on his purpose of being there. He and Chase became close with Olivia, Keira and Kenna, the three beautiful girls he loved dearly and passionately and was happy to finally found a group of friends that made him want to stay in the city for good.

But when Olivia betrays him and Chase takes Dallas’s anger episode seriously, there is a severed moment of the two best friends that would never be rekindled again. The result? A murder. The worst part? The wrong person was killed.

People with anger lash out of passion, but passion is untamable.

Moving around his entire adolescent life, Chase was raised as an army brat. He wasn’t able to have a childhood like many others as he grew up with memories of watching trees whip by in the car as his family continued to pack up everything they owned and relocate. Finally, his family settles North of Miami, in West Palm Beach for good. He immediately got a job as a busboy for an upscale restaurant across the bridge on the infamous and notorious Palm Beach. Turning from busboy to bartender, he served some of the most famous people we know today. Saving his tips, he was able to afford any college he wanted. Graduating with straight A’s and with a potential soccer scholarship, he packs up and heads 30 minutes south to University of Miami.

He meets Dallas when rushing a fraternity. They coincidentally bid to the same fraternity house but after a year of spiraling to rock bottom, Chase decides his life in the fraternity world was not for him. Dallas follows his footsteps and they meet Olivia, Kenna and Keira. He finds them attractive, fun and consistent, a glittering set of stones, something he never had once in his life besides a job.

But like most things in his life, they are destroyed and taken away. He is threatened again with the people in his life leaving and his surroundings changing, he spirals and in his spiral, he brings down everyone with him. And it doesn’t stop at rock bottom as someone is murdered and its Chase that spins them out of control- and everything is on purpose, in his control.

Never underestimate a tortured and lost human. Their chaos is their control.