Caliana Hart

Caliana Hart (Cali or Calliope) is the main character of Torn Between Alphas (originally called Selling Myself to the Alpha). Her best friend Lola persuades her to sell her virginity to Xavier Evers - a potential Alpha of a werewolf pack - and they become mated. She meets his older half-brother Greyson and finds herself pulled towards him, explained by the witch Big Mac that she is also mated to him by way of the due destini curse. She later finds out she is half-Fae and during her travels through the Fae world, meets her Grandmother Wrenthorn and older her half-sister Artemis. So far, she has only been mentioned by characters that have encountered her in The Alpha's Boyfriend (Gabriel & Mikah) and The Alpha's Baby (Colton & Maya).

BOOK 1
Introduced as the main character having a sex dream but immediately revealed to be a virgin. Best friends and roommates with Lola (Aliyah) Spillane.

Described as a natural brunette who never dyes her hair, with its length to just below the breasts; straight with a slight wave when wet. Noted to have freckles across the bridge of her nose. Only wears mascara and eyeliner. Usually wears jeans or leggings and sleeps in her bra and panties. Mentioned to have C-cup bust.

Xavier and her discussed her insecurity of having red stretch marks along her waistline due to a fat phase in school, Xavier called them “stripes” on a “wild little tiger” (1-ch 40).

Notices and dubs the term “wolf bear” in 1-ch 10 when she sees one on the fourth night of her stay in Oregon.

First time jumping out the window (because yes there are multiple times this occurs) in 1-ch 16 from the upstairs of the house in the first room she and Lola run into. After she is almost attacked by a wolf-bear during her venture into the woods, she believes the brothers are doing human experiments. She lands in nettles and twists her left ankle getting up.

Her first kiss with Xavier is 1-ch 21 in his bedroom, the second time is 1-ch 23 in the bathroom, in which both times Colton bursts through the door to interrupt them and tell Xavier about Lilac. The next time they kiss, she is trying to get him to talk about his mate 1-ch 29 and she touches his penis - which is her first time. She kisses him and touches his penis again 1-ch 38 to get him to stay in her room. She comments that it was bigger than every guy she had ever seen in pornos in 1- ch 40 where she ends up putting it in her mouth.

Hates the sight of blood, mentioned that she usually passes out when her blood is drawn - but is unaffected when Xavier is wounded 1-ch 23.

Assumed to have asthma as she was about to have an attack during her run with Lola in escaping in 1-ch 31.

Her bankcard pin is 8451. In 1-ch 33 she cuts her own arm with Lola’s pen blade and tosses it to Xavier before calling out to the security guards at the airport to even the girl's odds by leaving only Colton to escort them. She then threatens in 1-ch 34 to runs into the woods around the airport in an attempt to get away from the brothers and allow the other pack to kill her as a suicide mission.

Has a split chapter POV with Xavier in 1-ch 42 where she was kidnapped by the rival pack who wants revenge on Xavier.

1-ch 44 Cali mentions she used to have a dog

1-ch 51 Forgives Lola for keeping secrets. Tells Xavier that she was being greedy for insisting they be together when she is not the appropriate standard for his position - that she is a human who cannot provide pedigree children and strong enough to bring his pack back together. However, Xavier assures her that he is not definitively returning to the pack. She then decides to stay with him and drop out of school

1-ch 54 Lola realizes Cali and Xavier are mates because she is showing more confidence and her face is no longer bruised. States that mates have a strong bond in which their licks can help heal external wounds, but Xavier has Alpha genes which helped Cali to heal faster than normal.

BOOK 2
Uses a spatula to defend herself.

Overhears Xavier telling Colton that Greyson has been going around saying that Cali is his mate

BOOK 3
(3-ch 3) Notes that she had a middle school bully who would call her ugly names and said that no guy would ever look at her or date her.

(3-ch 4) Realizes she had goosebumps because Greyson returned; remembering the last time she saw Greyson in the dressing room at the mall, she also felt goosebumps

(3-ch 5) Cali’s eyes are said to be brown

BOOK 5
(5-ch 6) Greyson tells her that Fae blood have their uses with witches, werewolves, and vampires

After escaping from the witch, Cali enters the Fae world through the portal at Haystack Rock with Greyson as her companion. There she meets Grandmother Wrenthorn, who captures Greyson so that he can fight as a werewolf in the Light Fae war against the Dark Fae. She meets Torin and Astrid who assist her in breaking out Greyson from her grandmother's estate. However, her grandmother lets the both go free on a quest to save Orla by obtaining the Moon Buttercup flower, which is in the dangerous Dark Fae territory. Her grandmother gives her a rose quartz crystal which can help detect when Dark Fae are nearby. She enlists the help of Torin and Astrid in her quest.

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BOOK 6
Point of View Chapters: 2, 4, 6, 8                           83, 86, 90, 93, 95, 97, 99, 102, 104, 108, 111, 112, 114, 116, 117, 119, 121, 123, 124, 126

6-ch 2 Xavier states Cali’s blood tastes like a summer night, rain and and honey and sex. He is able to mind link with Cali

(6-ch 83) Mentioned she has never been afraid of lightning

(6-ch 100) Jay calls Cali a Pomeranian that bites the thief’s jugular - cute but deadly. He changes it to Cali the Collie when Lola says Cali would be offended to be compared to a Pomeranian instead of a border collie.

(6-ch 108) Confirmed she is ‘royal-born’ by Astrid

(6-ch 111) Went to her senior prom with Lola in a silk lilac ball gown

(6-ch 116) States she did not inherit her mother’s Fae grace

(6-ch 123) Hera tells Cali that humans have their memories erased when they leave the Fae world and she might not remember her time there since she is half-Fae

BOOK 7
Point of View Chapters:

She saves her mother Orla and wants to inform her father Tom about the supernatural.

(7-ch 5) Used to sleep with a stuffed rabbit as a little kid

(7-ch 58) Ava’s POV chapter describes Cali’s features as her own: narrow nose, high cheekbones, pretty face

(7-ch 66) Lola asks the MIB what they could possibly need in their apartment; Cali’s old accounting books

(7-ch 58) Cali and Lola had gone to a concert in a dive bar across town in high school, she returned home two hours after curfew and was caught by her dad sneaking into her bedroom window; she was grounded for a month after

(7-ch 78) Cali’s dad kept the digital camera she won selling wrapping paper at school in the fourth grade

(7-ch 81) Cali’s neighbor the Robertson’s has an old treehouse; she admits her mom used to scold her throughout elementary school for chewing her nails

(7-ch 82) Ava and Nolan retrieve information on Cali from social media: she’s born in Duluth, Minnesota. Her best friend is Lola Spillane but she’s also close to Alex Chevere.

(7-ch 85) Cali has One Direction posters in her bedroom and a life sized portrait of Harry Styles

(7-ch 105) Alex is being helped by Artemis and Cali in his drunken state. He asks Artemis if she wants to dance, which she declines. He admits that he loves to dance and asks Cali if she remembers the Sadie Hawkins dance in high school that she asked him to.

(7-ch 114) The MIB questioned Cali’s involvement at Hunter’s Park, where she calmed down the party goers from panicking about a wolf.

7-ch 128 It’s stated that Cali’s favorite is waffles, she drowns them in whipped cream

The Alpha's Baby
1-ch 15 Maya is thinking how many times she is relating to Cali’s situations and wonders if she’s going to start drinking rose, going to fight with spatulas and make all the wrong decisions, and willingly listen to Taylor Swift.

1-ch 16 When Colton and Maya joke about having a June wedding, Colton suggests Maya’s maid of honor will be Cali. She denies it because she sees her as the flower girl. Colton thinks she’s too old for it but Maya thinks it’s perfect for her maturity level.

1-ch 53 Maya thinks that if she told Cali about her pregnancy she would want to brainstorm names and beg to be the baby’s godmother

BOOK 8
(8-ch 4) Alex tells her that she hasn’t been the same since she’s been to Oregon and mentions they used to build Lego villages, which she remembers that they had done back in sixth grade. She recalls that she only did things that Alex liked to do because her hobbies were too girly. So, she would play Sims and watch movies with Lola.

(8-ch 37) Cali mentions that she could still do a back handspring since she was in high school color guard. She tells Hypatia that she only speaks English and basic Spanish.

(8-ch 39) Cali again mentions she loves waffles by stating that if she died she would never eat waffles again. She also states that it takes her at least 2 hours to decide on a breakfast staple when she gets to the cereal aisle. She hasn’t visited but wishes to go to Hawaii, Rome, and Santorini.

(8-ch 16) Lola and Cali agree to meet in her treehouse which she calls her secret hideout; Lola and her used to play in it as kids. She’s unable to climb down the trellis outside her window like she did in high school, and the last time she did a piece of wood splintered. On her way, she grabs a bag of cheesy puffs because it’s an old treehouse favorite. She states that the treehouse is in the far corner of the back yard and needs a coat of paint; it's in a tall elm tree. Tom had built it in the summer she turned nine because of her princess phase and she needed a tower. She notices posters of One Direction on the walls. She reveals to Lola that Artemis is her sister.

 +Note: that back in 1-ch 32, Cali states that Lola and her met in high school, so her 9 year old princess phase must have lingered quite a few years as they greet each other as princesses...

(8-ch 64) Cali is unable to read more from Cassandra’s journal because she gets sick while riding in a car

(8-ch 68) Cali see Ava disguised as her and mentions they are exactly alike to the point that they had the same stubborn cowlick in the back

(8-ch 69) Cali compares kissing Greyson to the time when she was 14 yrs old and had braces and a tankini. She went snorkeling with her parents when they had won a trip to Hawaii She went out on a boat, strapped on goggles, and looked at the blue ocean terrified of it’s endlessness.

 +Note: in 8-ch 39 she mentioned that she still hasn’t been to Hawaii...

8-ch 97 Cali tells Greyson that she’s on birth control; their first time together. She states that she never had pleasure this intense

8-ch 102 Cali has sex with Greyson and states she never realized oral can be so good and never once had a guy ask her what she wanted or liked best.

8-ch 112 Cali has a “Sorry For Myself” music playlist. Cali states that she took History & Culture of the American South and had been bored in class but was anxious she was going to get called on and exposed for not doing the reading. She also states that she took ancient Greek mythology in ninth grade, which she also zoned out on.

8-ch 118 Violet states Cali gets her tone of voice from her dad (He says excuse me when shocked)

8-ch 119 Artemis confirms that Cali can summon wisps if she asks

8-ch 133 Silas learns Cali is Fae when she blasts him and Ava at the cottage because she overheard Ava tell him she killed Xavier

8-ch 145 Cali states that sex with Greyson was mind-blowing and gets better and better every time. She learns that Mrs. Smith is Greyson’s mother

8-ch 163 Colton tells Cali she has great boobs but asks what’s going on with the veins.

8-ch 169 Greyson tells Cali he didn’t choose her as Luna because she is too compassionate and would not be able to push her feelings aside to make the tough choices.

8-ch 178 When Greyson makes his battle speech, Cali states all she wanted to do was rush up to him and kiss him because in that moment he was everything she wanted in a mate: strong, brave, compassionate Alpha who risked everything for her

8-ch 181 Artemis tells Cali she can’t ever turn into a wolf because she’s Fae.

8-ch 187 Cali rides on Xavier’s back to battle and states she feels like a warrior queen coming back to her kingdom; she imagines herself in leather armor with a long fur cape and a silver sword, using her Fae powers to knock Demeter down and striking Silas with her sword

8-ch 190 Cali asks Astrid to glamour her into a wolf; Cali admires her lovely russet brown coat

8-ch 197 Silas tells his sons that he doesn’t see why they are so wrapped up in Cali but admits she’s pretty in a Midwestern kind of way

8-ch 202 Cali holds the Orb of Letifer. It talks to her and tells her that if she doesn’t destroy it, and keeps it safe, it can help her with the curse that binds her. It calls her Calliope. Demeter uses her silver dagger to stab Cali in the stomach

BOOK 9
9-ch 27 Lola states that Cali barely ever drinks and if she states she needs one, things must be bad

9-ch 29 Cali looks into the mirror and states she has hazel eyes and brown hair

9-ch 31 In Cali’s vision she is wearing a ruby red gown that glowed in the dark and has bell sleeves

9-ch 34 Cali finds out from Hypatia that the Anathema spell they performed just redirected the curse instead of removing it and now whomever she chooses, the unchosen mate will die. She states that she is Steinar’s friend.

9-ch 41 Mrs. Smith tells Cali that if she ever hurts Greyson she will never forgive her. She tells Cali that she likes her normally but the due destini involving her son is a mess; and now that the curse will kill whoever she doesn’t choose, she can never choose Xavier. Cali assures her that she loves Greyson and doesn’t want to hurt him, but Mrs. Smith tells her she still went ot Xavier’s bedroom last night that she’s been having her cake and eating it too, she’s been selfish, and that Cali has been holding all the power over the two men. She tells Cali to leave the pack and the two men, and return to Minnesota

9-ch 44 Cali states that Greyson and Xavier are her mates, real and true parts of her, that they shared a connection that couldn’t be broken with time or distance so she can’t just walk away from them or move on because she would be leaving a part of her own being behind.

9-ch 47 Cali admits to Lola that she imagined that whoever she chose would want to do something to make it formally official

9-ch 62 Cali and Xavier are about to get intimate when she starts laughing because she remembers the first time she gave him a blow job and her experience had been through experimental and infrequent porn watching

9-ch 64 Cali tells Xavier that she is twenty years old and does not want to have a baby yet so she is on birth control pills.

9-ch 68 Cali states that she was hoping to finish college eventually as she is worried if she does have children with Xavier, they could be twins as it runs in the Evers family.

9-ch 70 A wisp appears to Cali to direct her to where the Orb of Letifer is; it calls her Caliana (previously it called her Calliope)

9-ch 78 Cali states that werewolves never tire out of having sex, which is why they aren’t called wearwolves. She asks Xavier if she were to be his Luna would she be called Caliluna of the Redwood Pack.

9-ch 82 Greyson describes Cali to the three witch sisters as stubborn, loves her friends and family and he realized how he felt about her the moment he met her. He tells them she is beautiful with dark hair and porcelain skin. She is strong and brave

9-ch 91 Xavier and Cali’s sex scene is the first where she states she feels pleasure and pain; knows he is claiming her, and where he verbally states aloud “mine” and she responds “yours” BUT she calls out Greyson’s name

9-ch 93 Cali states that a voice in the back of her head sounds like Artemis, telling her calling out Greyson’s name while having sex with Xavier means she shouldn’t put all her chips on Xavier. She tells her Artemis-brain to shut up.

9-ch 115 Cali declines to bob for apples because she washed her hair this morning. Artemis states that Cali might look like a wet rat but she’s still cute, she’s just not very coordinated

9-ch 118 Cali dresses up for Halloween in a Tiger onesie

BOOK 10
10-ch 10 Cali states for the first time she didn’t feel that pull from each of them once Greyson introduced Maren and Fenrir to them. Instead, she felt like Xavier and her were a team and Greyson was on the opposite side

10-ch 17 Cali states she usually adds milk and sugar to her coffee, but presently takes plain coffee in the mug to fit her mood - steaming, dark, and bitter

10-ch 22 Lola asks Cali what she would do differently if she could with her mates. Cali states that she would want to do all the things that normal couples do: go on dates, spend time together, without all the drama. She then tells Lola that to solve her problem would be if she could break the death part of the curse, but Lola wonders who would she choose? She likes how Xavier is protective, caring, and fights for the people he loves - her warrior wolf. Greyson is just as fierce but is kind and one of the few people who makes her feel seen. She then states that it was like asking her to choose between her right and left eye: she would be fine with either but was at her best with both.

10-ch 30 Cali states that she knows she used her constant chattiness to make people do things for her. When Lola states if Fenrir is Greyson’s would that make Cali an evil stepmom; which Cali states she hoped to be a cool step-mom

10-ch 42 Cali admits to Maren when she first started dating Xavier, she only owned 4 pairs of jeans

10-ch 47 Cali gets jealous of Ava’s beautiful hair stating that her’s always looked vaguely like a squirrel was about to nest in it.

10-ch 55 Cali dreads facing her parents in the pack house and states if she were to run away and get a new identity, she always thought she’d make a really good Penelope. She mentions Greyson as her second boyfriend. She states that Orla could be relentless when she wanted to be and that was where she had gotten that particular personality quirk, then feels sympathetic to others as she realizes how annoying it was to have the same brand of determination used against her

10-ch 66 Cali wears a soft lilac gown to the first challenge of the werewolf Bachelorette

10-ch 67 Cali tells Xavier she doesn’t even know who he is anymore because the person she loved wouldn’t ever do something like leave their brother to die in the Kollector’s zoo

10-ch 74 Cali states that she can’t eat a midnight dinner because she wouldn’t be able to sleep as she’d be too bloated; but she states she has to eat if it’s her dad’s delicious food on the table; when she finds it’s Tom’s meatloaf in 10-ch 77 she states it again

10-ch 85 Cali dreams of a house on the beach with wide windows with Greyson (who grills)

10-ch 93 Cali states that she always thought she’d have children one day but in her daydreams she was always older, more experienced, more stable and settled in her life; and that the child she was raising was always her own.

10-ch 97 Cal thinks that her Bachelorette date with Xavier, making wine by smashing grapes with their feet, is like a real date - something they never had before

10-ch 103 Xavier asks Cali if they could go anywhere on a date, where would it be. She imagines Xavier dressed in a tux with a bowtie opening doors, pulling out her seat, holding her hand across the table at a romantic restaurant while they feed each other bites of their dishes

10-ch 109 Lola reminisces with Cali about Evan Bately’s grad party where she had too many wine coolers and tried to run into the yard to vomit but ran into the door; Cali states it was one of her most embarrassing moments

10-ch 110 Cali cuts her hand on a broken bottle and throws it at Gregor in an attempt to save Lola from his attack. He begins to lick the blood from the bottle in a trance; she states it was like when she would eat a waffle and forget about the rest of the world

10-ch 118 This is the first Chapter of the series where the format is Cali text messaging someone (Mikah). She states that she doesn’t want to go to France because she heard the French were very rude and very beautiful and had various unhealthy everyday habits; and that they were the werewolves of the human world

BOOK 11
11-ch 10 Cali states it’s the first time she’s seen vampire vs vampire when Sabyr fights Laszlo to defend her and that she always thought that vampires were the most civilized of all the supernaturals

11-ch 12 Cali states when she was young, splayed catched with her neighbor’s dog and would pretend to throw the ball but it would still chase after it as if it was thrown

11-ch 16 Greyson wants to remind Orla that she kept Cali in the dark about her Fae ancestry for twenty years

11-ch 17 Cali doesn’t want to remind Greyson that she’s fragile, breakable, but not made out of glass or invulnerable.

11-ch 18 Artemis believes that being the center of the universe with her parent’s love and affection for twenty years is not enough

11-ch 19 Cali remembers when she promised not to eat a batch of cookies her aunt had made, the kind her dad’s mom used to make for him - delicate chocolate cookies with powdered sugar frosting, but after several hours of restraining herself, she gobbled all but one of them and lied to her parents about not knowing what happened to it. She was grounded for a week and her mother told her it was important to keep her word when she made a promise as it is dangerous not to.

11-ch 25 Cali kisses Xavier hard and passionate, which is the kind that sets him off every time. When she tells him she loves him, she states that the words came from deep within her heart. She states she did feel beautiful when she was with him.

11-ch 32 Xavier states that Cali is usually compassionate, empathetic, and so giving when it came to helping other people which was sometimes annoying but is her defining characteristic

11-ch 37 In Cali’s vision of the night before her and Greyson’s wedding, she has flowers in her swept up hair, wears a white silk wrap dress. She sees nothing but pinot noir but states she’s in the mood for a Malbec. In the study upstairs, there is a picture of her and Greyson standing in front of the Eiffel Tower. She states that they closed on their house last year in June - on her birthday as Greyson had hidden the key to the house inside her birthday cake and she had almost broken a tooth when she had bitten down on it.

11-ch 49 Cali states that she knew a Cassandra as a classmate from her freshman year, who she had seen on Facebook. She states her only references on mediums and seances are from TV shows and the booths at the Minnesota State Fair.

11-ch 50 Cali states that she has an idea of what her future would look like without either of her mates - growing old, raising eight cats, and thinking about the two loves her life that she had lost like a tragic heroine in a Victorian novel

11-ch 55 When Jay tells Cali and Orla that Lola is turning into a vampire, Cali states that she was beyond freaking out - she was away from Panic Mode, light years away from Melt Down, and orbiting around Total Body Freak-Out Zone

11-ch 61 Cali states that she wanted the same mate connection that Lola and Jay have; but wanted that one person who wound stand by her through thick and thin and didn’t want to have to choose

11-ch 68 Cali states that the day that Lola turned into a vampire, attacked her, and was sent out of the pack house; after she broke up with both Xavier and Greyson during their fight to the death and Xavier turns up missing with Ava, is one of the longest of her life. She instinctively knows that Xavier was in danger.

11-ch 71 Cali states she can tug on her connection to Xavier and doesn’t feel that it’s broken

11-ch 88 Cali states that she always took the good cop role because her Dad had raised her to be super nice. Jay asks if he should call her Ranger Hart or Ranger Cali when she pins the badge Vander gives her

11-ch 94 Cali hugs her dad and has a flashback of a bad day in third grade when Carrie Sullivan stole her new penguin eraser set and she reported it to the teacher but Mrs. Gulliver told her that no one liked a tattle tale

BOOK 12
12-ch 6 Cali loves portmanteaus and calls Lilac in Arlo’s body Arlolac, Lilo, and Arlac

12-ch 10 Cali states she can feel disappointment through the bond between her and Greyson when she turns him down. She also feels amusement through their bond when they mind links each other at the same time to warn the other to stay behind so that they could protect the other from an impending zombie battle. It’s the first time Cali states that she feels she can hold her own as Greyson’s equal and not needing and Alpha to protect her.

12-ch 30 Cali states she is used to snow from living in Minnesota for most of her life

12-ch 36 Cali states that Orla had dragged her out one Saturday morning to a yard sale and bought her a doll - a fairy that was released from its base so that it spins in the air like a top. It was a cotton candy pink Skydancer

12-ch 57 Cali wears a silver face mask when Xavier goes to say his goodbye to fulfill his deal with Kira. He states she looks like a cute robot

12-ch 66 Cali admits to Greyson she had the dream about their daughter before he had his vision of it; her name is Sabine

BOOK 13
13-ch 13 A wisp appears, calling Calliope, from Greysons window

13-ch 29 Cali states she once had food poison from some bad potato salad. She also states that whenever she used to put on a full skirt she would do spins.

BOOK 15
15-ch 35 Lola tells Jay that one time Cali caused an explosion in their high school science lab which ended up hurting Alex

15-ch 38 Cali states that she doesn’t have the trait of organization like her mother. Her strengths were stubbornness and being adorable

BOOK 16
16-ch 37 Lola reminisces about the time Cali fell down the library stairs In sophomore year and ran into Dan McCullough’s arms

16- ch 104 A wisp appears to Cali when Xavier and Big Mac are arguing. It waits for her to be saved by Ava from revenants and continues on to show her where Artemis, who has the orb decoy is.