Forbes Carlyle

A former friend of Helen Morgendorffer, Forbes Carlyle is the lifetime companion of Paige Turner in The Winters of Those Gone Before. The only daughter of the uber-wealthy Spaulding Carlyle and Stepford Carlyle (also the granddaughter of Miranda Carlyle and the great-great-granddaughter of Majel Carlyle), Forbes was a double major (Archaeology and Art History) at Middleton College when she met Paige (also known as Serenity) and they fell in love almost immediately.

Forbes' friendship with Helen and Jake cooled after their graduation from Middleton (partly because of his slight jealously over Forbes' ability to deal with her family problems in a way he never could, and partly because of the way he refused an offer to work for her family as a floor-level maarketing rep in the Carlyle business empire). Currently, Forbes lives with Paige in an supremely affluent surburb of Denver, Colorado, where she also works as an international antiques broker.

(In the story notes for 'Winters', as well as the unreleased 'unrated' version, it is revealed that in the summer after Helen's graduation from Middleton, Forbes and Paige accompanied her on her month-long vacation paid for by Helen's mother (as a ruse to try and break her and Jake up). Over the course of their vacation, the three women engaged in many playfully erotic adventures, including a bet dealing with the fourteen graduating seniors at an exclusive boys' academy in Dijon, France, and an intimate encounter between all three on the night before they returned to America.)

Forbes is tall, with dark scarlet hair and blue eyes. She is the mother of Cadet First Class Julia Carlyle, who attends the United States Academy of Extranormal Studies and looks surprisingly like her (except that Julia has green eyes).