Tropes second chance friends to lovers to enemies to lovers miscommunication characters jackson avery, successful businessman and ceo of rose energies, an energy company focused on turning flowers into natural sources of pure energy.he is a philanthropist, highly ambitious, strategic, sometimes cold and short tempered. emma rose, she’s a gardener, a plant enthusiast, a reader and a blogger. she is kind, warm hearted and free spirited. she is twenty seven years old. she is jackson avery’s ex wife. kevin stone, he’s an associate/friend of emma and the president of candlelite energies, rose’s rival company. piper kent, woman in stem, tenured professor at mit, emma’s best friend and kevin’s fiance. april avery, jackson’s sister. she is thirty two, and loves emma. nancy avery. jackson’s mother. they are quite close. lily rose, emma’s mother and her only living relative. they are very close. nana rose - the newly deceased matriarch of the rose family.