Rowan Mayfair is the Staff Attending in Neurosurgery working in a university Neurological Trauma center. She is tall, with short wavy, blonde hair. When she is six, she accidentally kills a girl on the playground with her mental powers. She also kills a would-be rapist. Rowan kills Graham, her adoptive father, when he threatens to leave his wife, even though she is dying of cancer. All three of Rowan's murders are attributed to a weakness in the blood vessels to the brain. Rowan throws herself into her work, hoping that by saving lives, she can redeem the evil she has accidentally caused. Rowan is attracted to heroes, simple men who do not demand anything from her, but she does not form any attachments. She and Graham argue about her lovers, and she lets him into her bed to stop him from leaving Ellie. After his death, she feels stalked by his memory and her rage for him.