Neil Adam Armon
Neil is the fictional young historian and author who reaches out to the experienced and influential writer named Naomi and asks her for her opinion about his book. He is a member of the Men's Writers Association and so the book, and the narrative, are still constructed from a male perspective. This is where he is going wrong, in Naomi's opinion, as in a matriarchal society, in order to resonate with female readers he is going to need to find a more female-oriented perspective for the story, and also create a female nom de plume for publication.
Naomi
The fictional writer and mentor with no listed last name, Naomi gives Neil advice through letters and tells him how to present the book in the most successful way possible. She is very constructive and genuinely likes the narrative and writing style but feels that in order to be commercially successful the book needs to have a female author's name and advises Neil to come up with a pen name.
Allie Montgomery Taylor
Allie wants to use her new-found powers for the benefit of the world and particularly womankind. She has not been treated well by life thus far, particularly by men. She is a child in foster care and is abused by her foster father. When she finds that she has the power to zap him with electrical currents from her fingertips she defends herself and kills him. Allie is a devout girl with a strong religious faith and so killing someone sends her reeling. She hides out in a convent whilst she comes to terms with what she has done, and also learns to harness her powers for good. She decides that she will become a healer and through this becomes a respected religious leader.
Allie is worried when she sees that society is degenerating and that women are using their power in the same way that men did. When she realizes that Tatiana is killing all the men in Moldovia she kills Tatiana to save the future of the world, and then resets it back in the stone age so that the world can grow up as a matriarchy.
Margot Cleary
Mayor Cleary is the respected mayor of a small town in Wisconsin. She is the mother of Jocelyn, a teen daughter whose powers Margot begins to notice and determines to harness for the benefit of the world. Inspired by Jocelyn, she starts training camps for women who have discovered this power in themselves and want to know how best to use it. Margot does not use the power for nefarious means; she does use it to her own advantage during a political debate when she zaps her two male opponents into silence. She wins the debate and is voted to the position of Governor.
Jocelyn Cleary
Jocelyn is Margot's daughter. Hers is not an easy path to owning her power. It comes and goes and she has trouble bringing it of herself, although she does manage to awaken the power in her mother. She is patient and does not rush her understanding of her new situation.
Roxy Monka
Londoner Roxy was born into a criminal family; her father is a feared mob boss and her mother is murdered before her eyes. She wants to use her powers responsibly but as time goes by she starts to act more like her father, and use them for her criminal enterprises.
Tunde Edo
Tunde does not get the credit he deserves for being the catalyst for the women of the world to realize their new powers.After witnessing the power first hand he posts videos online of women using their power and it is really only because of this that Margot, Allie and Jocelyn are able to see that they are not alone, and also that they are not imagining what they are seeing and feeling. Tunde is almost raped by a woman in Nigeria, and does not fare particularly well in the new matriarchal society he has alerted women to create. He is a good man whose intentions are well meaning but who does not fully understand the power he has unleashed.
Tatiana Moskalev
One corrupt politician deserves another and there is no better proof of this than Tatiana. She is the First Lady of Moldova and her husband, the president, is a pretty corrupt man. Once she realizes that the has the power to do so, she kills him and takes over the country, ostensibly to make it better than it was under his regime, but the country she creates is really a mirror image of the one it was before. She creates a matriarchy but uses the same methods of controlling the population that her husband did. When she starts to orchestrate a mass killing of Moldovan men, Allie realizes that the matriarchal society she envisioned is degenerating and it is Tatiana's behavior that inspires her to take the world back to stone age times to recalibrate it.
