Lizzie Caraway

**Lizzie Caraway** is the daughter of Mrs. Caraway. She is around twenty years old and owns a bakeshop. She occasionally helps her mother cook at Greenglass House.

## Biography

### *Greenglass House*

Mrs. Pine mentioned that Mrs. Caraway and Lizzie were coming to help out. Milo noted that Lizzie owns a bakeshop and has come to help occasionally when the inn was busy. When they arrive, they are described as snow-covered. Lizzie, who Milo notes is twentyish, helped her mother with the groceries and gave Milo a smile and nod.

When he met Meddy, Milo thought (incorrectly) that she must have been Lizzie's younger sister. When Meddy implied that Mrs. Caraway and Lizzie had been talking about Milo's adoption, he felt betrayed, because he liked and trusted the Caraways. Milo carried Mrs. Caraway and Lizzie's suitcases up to the special guest room on the second floor. Meddy told him that she had not brought a suitcase, but simply "threw her stuff in" with Lizzie's. She later unzipped Lizzie's bag.

Lizzie boiled water for tea, which made Dr. Gowervine and Mrs. Hereward suspicious. Milo mused that they did not trust others to make their tea. Lizzie later made "famous" red velvet cake for the guests. She baked something that, according to Milo, smelled delicious, of nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, and vanilla. She was making a lot of noise while doing this, which enabled Mrs. Hereward to tell Milo that Greenglass House had been built for someone in her family without worry of being overheard.

When Owen arrived, Lizzie provided a steaming mug for Owen's hands. When the power went out to Greenglass House, Lizzie joined her mother in attempting to calm Dr. Gowervine and Mrs. Hereward. Milo had Lizzie hold the candles for him before making the yelling two carry them. Milo instructed Dr. Gowervine to bring the firewood in for Lizzie, and once he had done this the two stacked wood next to the fireplace. Lizzie later helped place lanterns throughout Greenglass House before being one of the first to go up to bed.

When Milo came downstairs the next morning, Lizzie was sitting at the dining table with her face in her arms and her shoulders shaking. Milo thought she was crying before realizing she was actually laughing, and Mrs. Caraway revealed that the stove and oven run on gas and are just fine even though the power was out. When Fenster and Mrs. Hereward baked a cake, Milo noted that Mrs. Caraway and Lizzie were very hard-pressed to not take over. However, after the two got the cake in the oven, Mrs. Caraway and Lizzie clapped.

When Milo went outside to check the garden, Mrs. Caraway instructed him to be back in ten minutes or she would send Lizzie after him. After Milo found that there was a customs agent in the house, his parents talked hurriedly to Mrs. Caraway and Lizzie. Later, Lizzie and Georgie played a card game against Fenster and Brandon. When all the guests were leaving, Mrs. Caraway and Lizzie left too, hugging the Pines before they did so.

### *Ghosts of Greenglass House*

After hearing that Emmett Syebuck was staying an extra night, Mrs. Caraway offered to stay too. Mrs. Pine noted that Lizzie was coming to pick Mrs. Caraway up, and Mrs. Caraway decided that she would invite Lizzie to stay for dinner. After Clem and Georgie arrived to Greenglass House, Lizzie drove up, honking the horn of her car and leaning out the window. Lizzie then went back into town to get groceries, having offered to stay the night as well. At dinner, Lizzie announced that Clem and Owen were to be married, noting that she'd picked up champagne so they could have a toast. Lizzie later served the champagne.

Clem and Georgie told the Pines about their heist-gone-wrong. Brandon complained about their evasive speech, asking if they were worried that Lizzie and Mrs. Caraway were going to squeal. Lizzie and Mrs. Caraway, from the kitchen, announced that they absolutely would. In the morning, Milo could smell Lizzie's bacon, his favorite, and came to the stove. Lizzie shoed him away to a safer distance from the flame, and promised to notify him when he could have some. Lizzie noted that she had told her mother to sleep in, then asked Milo to find Emmett and tell him that breakfast was ready, which he did. Mrs. Caraway and Lizzie decided to stay at least until Emmett left. Mrs. Caraway later enlisted Lizzie to help make it look like Clem and Georgie were having a girls' weekend, and they drank cocktails and used nail polish and beauty masks for their faces.

When the Waits arrived, Lizzie joined those out on the porch, then went inside with the group. When many people accepted Mrs. Caraway's offer for drinks, Lizzie laughed and joined Mrs. Caraway in the kitchen. She asked Lucky questions about the Waits. Mr. Larven volunteered to make Shutter Club Punch, passing Lizzie and entering the kitchen. Lizzie provided Rob with a drink, and when Milo returned downstairs, he found Clem and Lizzie watching the botched chimney cleaning with expressions of both horror and amusement. Before Mr. Larven collapsed, he stared at Lizzie, then declared that she was a pepper grinder with arms and legs. Lizzie frowned, repeating his words, and Mr. Hakelbarend suggested that perhaps the bun her hair was in was the clicker, then renounced his participation in the conversation. Mr. Larven then crashed forward onto the table, and Lizzie went to help.

After the guests botched Milo's plan to tell stories, Milo went to go outside. Milo, due to availability, chose Lizzie to inform of his departure. He told her that he was going outside, explaining that he would lose it if he didn't, and she decided that it would be a good idea, advising him to wear a hat 'and whatnot'. Milo left, and when he returned, Lizzie asked him if it had worked, and he said it had. Milo waved good night to her and her mother, then went up to bed. When Lizzie came down in the morning, she, to Meddy's annoyance, after saying good morning to Milo, whispered an awkward greeting to Meddy.

Lizzie asked how the carolers sign up to be Waits, then about how the costumes work. Mrs. Caraway covered an exclamation about stolen things by saying that Lizzie was going to make stollen, and Lizzie hurried to the kitchen, saying she'd forgotten to start it. Lizzie explained what stollen was, and that she was a baker. Mrs. Kirkegrim said that they should tell stories, since there would be a very long wait before stollen. Lizzie insisted that she was modifying the recipe so it would not have to rise for that long. Lizzie set the stollen to rise and was then kicked out of the kitchen, and the guests did dishes. While this happened, Lizzie snoozed on the couch. Milo could later smell the stollen and figured that it must be in the oven.

When Milo said that someone had poisoned Mr. Larven's punch, Lizzie thought it unlikely. When Mr. Hakelbarend mentioned Morvengarde in his story, Lizzie asked if this was Morvengarde from Deacon and Morvengarde, and he confirmed this. During Lucky's story, Mrs. Kirkegrim smelled burning, and Lizzie ran to the kitchen. Milo found her swearing and waving a dishtowel at smoke coming from the oven. The oven was, he noticed, set to five hundred degrees. The stollen loaves were blackened, and Lizzie decided to make cookies instead.

When Milo told a story, he had the guests watch the Waits to see what their reactions were. When Milo mentioned how bad Deacon and Morvengarde maps were, Lizzie agreed, grumbling about having to make deliveries with them. Lizzie later offered the cookies and more drinks, and Sylvester offered to help. Meddy got the guests' reactions from those who had been watching them, and one of their suspects, Mrs. Kirkegrim, had been watched by Lizzie, who reported her reaction. Lizzie later put the stollen loaves in the trash and angrily threw the trash into the bin outside. After the locks that had been stolen were found on Sylvester's coat, Lizzie and Marzana watched Clem pick each lock. Milo helped, and Lizzie and Marzana applauded after he succeeded.

Mr. Larven asked for coffee, but the Caraways, Meddy having told him that he was one of the thieves, did not get it for him; Lizzie snorted. Milo escaped past the Caraways outside, then later found the derrotero inside of Lizzie's stollen dough, supposing that Mrs. Kirkegrim had hidden them while doing dishes in the kitchen, then turned up the oven. When the Waits went to leave, Lizzie packed some treats and hot drinks for their walk back to the Liberty. Mrs. Pine noted that the Caraways needed to get home in time to meet Madeleine. Lizzie and Mrs. Caraway brought down their luggage, then hugged the Pines. Georgie, Clem, and Owen rode back with the Caraways in Lizzie's battered blue station wagon.

## Physical appearance

Lizzie has blond hair. She is described as "twentyish". At one point, she wore her hair in a bun, and the drunk Mr. Larven commented that she looked like a pepper grinder.

## Personality and traits

Lizzie is a very good baker. Lizzie is resourceful, kind, and can be fun.