Skye Hawthorne

**Skye Hawthorne** is the mother of Nash, Grayson, Jameson, and Xander Hawthorne. She is the daughter of Tobias Hawthorne and Alice O'Day Hawthorne, and the sister of Tobias Hawthorne II and Zara Hawthorne-Calligaris.

## Biography

### Early Life

Skye was seventeen years old when she gave birth to Nash. She made an attempt at playing parent, but it didn't stick. She would leave for a few months and come back pregnant.

### *The Inheritance Games*

Skye is furious upon learning that her father has disinherited her and the rest of the Hawthorne family, instead leaving his entire fortune to Avery Grambs. Tobias only leaves her a one-time inheritance of fifty thousand dollars and his compass, writing “may she always know true north.”

Rebecca Laughlin reveals to Avery that she saw Skye in the underground tunnels with Libby Grambs's abusive ex-boyfriend Drake Sanders the night of the shooting. Thus, it was Skye who gave Drake access to the estate, and probably also pointed him toward the Black Wood. Grayson asks Avery to please let him handle Skye. The next morning, Grayson makes it clear to his mother that she can either move out of the House, or he will call the police to arrest her. Skye moves out.

### *The Hawthorne Legacy*

Avery and the Hawthorne brothers discover that Skye has begun sleeping with Avery's absentee and deadbeat father, Ricky Grambs. She and Ricky have teamed up to try and gain control over Tobias's fortune. Skye tries to help Ricky file for custody over Avery while she's still a minor, and thus gain control of the inheritance that way. Their plot ultimately fails.

It's revealed that Skye slept with Jake Nash, knowing about her sister's feelings for him, which resulted in the birth of Nash.

## Appearance

Skye's age is hard to determine from her appearance. She looks older than thirty, but younger than fifty, but stating that she was 17 when Nash was born and Nash is 25 in the books, she would be 42 years old. She wears flowy clothes.

## Personality

Skye initially presents herself as a hippie and carefree type. But she is a complicated and layered person. She is manipulative, petty, and underhanded. She deliberately embarrasses her children as a form of manipulation and power. When Avery first arrives at Hawthorne House, Skye is nice to her, but once the contents of Tobias's will have been revealed, Skye becomes very passive aggressive and openly resents Avery, eventually becoming willing to kill Avery. Skye insists her sons call her by her first name and won't respond to them unless they do so. She tells Avery that it's because she wanted to raise her children "as her equals." She comes across as constantly delighted by her children’s very presence. Avery wonders if Skye had her children because Toby was gone. She’s over the top, infectious, and overshares. She is elegant in the way someone born to wealth is. She is a believer in horoscopes. Skye refuses to tell her sons who their fathers are. She never even told the men that she was pregnant. However, Skye points out that with all the constant media attention her family gets, they should have been able to figure it out and if they wanted to be part of their son's life, they could have. Nan says that Skye "never did like getting her hands dirty herself."

## Relationships

### Zara Hawthorne-Calligaris

Skye and Zara absolutely hate each other. They have almost completely opposite personalities. It comes across like Skye would purposely get pregnant because Zara couldn't. Even going as far as sleeping with the man she knew Zara loved, Jake Nash, and getting pregnant with his son.

## References

1. ↑ *The Inheritance Games*: page 36
2. ↑ *The Inheritance Games*: page 368