Gayle

Gayle, a character in the Sunkissed book, is your mom. She is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
She has dark brown eyes, light brown shoulder-length hair, and tan skin. She is wearing a light pink top with white hems, white trousers, and a long necklace with purple penchant.

Personality
Much of Gayle's personality is distorted by her grief for her late husband. When he had been ill, she had been in denial; when he had passed, she had been numb. Her grief over losing the love her life has shadowed her feelings towards her daughters and what it means to "move on".

By the end of the book, she realizes that her silence hurt her daughters. She originally avoided talking about their father with them because she was trying to protect herself from the pain of losing him.

Sunkissed

 * Chapter 1: Beach Magic
 * Chapter 2: Retail Therapy
 * Chapter 3: Secret's in the Sauce
 * Chapter 4: Cooking with Love
 * Chapter 5: Say it with Art
 * Chapter 6: The Spirit of Competition
 * Chapter 7: Cowgirls Just Wanna Have Fun
 * Chapter 8: Happy as a Clam
 * Chapter 9: Treat Yourself
 * Chapter 10: High and Low Tides
 * Chapter 11: Tracks in the Sand
 * Chapter 12: Sinking Fast
 * Chapter 13: Paint By Blunder
 * Chapter 14: Summer Secrets
 * Chapter 15: The Sound of Summer
 * Chapter 16: Ashes to Ashes
 * Chapter 17: All Good Things

Your Character
Your Character is Gayle's older daughter.

Alexis
Alexis is Gayle's younger daughter. Their relationship was strained but improved with your help.

Bill
Bill was Gayle's husband. Throughout the book, Gayle struggles with moving on with her life. It has been a year since Bill's passing, and Gayle is still in mourning. Her mourning clouds her judgement regarding her daughters and how to handle the family's property. When you invite her to Turtle Bay for the summer in an effort to reconnect and repair her relationship with Alexis, at first she seems happy to try. However, that is short-lived as many things trigger memories of Bill for her. She finds remembering painful and wants to block the memories by selling the property. Because it will take the summer to fix up the house, you and Alexis decide to use the time to convince her to change her mind.

You discover that one of Bill's last wishes was to have his ashes scattered in the ocean near Turtle Bay. Gayle fights you on this, saying that once his ashes are gone, it will be like that he is gone forever and that is the last part of him that she has.

Heathcliff
Heathcliff is the mystery artist. The first painting she sees of his she admires. She thinks it has a revolutionary style, chaos in his brushstrokes but also a vulnerability.

When they finally meet, he and Gayle get along very well. When he tells her about his daughter, she tells him that her love for Turtle Bay is also tied to her love for Bill and that's what made it painful to be there. In Chapter 16, you can encourage their relationship in a premium scene.

Trivia

 * She is an art professor.
 * Her first name is revealed in a premium scene in Chapter 2. If you didn't take the premium scene, she reveals the name in Chapter 3.
 * Her character model resembles Brenda Silva from the High School Story: Class Act series.
 * Her younger character model resembles Lena Ortiz from The Heist: Monaco.
 * The name Gayle is of Hebrew origin and means "joy of the father". It's a variant of the name Abigail.
 * Gayle studied abroad for some time in Paris.