No spoilers. Mostly. I tried. I failed. You’ve been warned.
Welcome to Beacon Harbor — where the chowder is award-winning, the seagulls are criminal, and someone has ended up dead on the dinner cruise. The Compass Rose B&B is full of unforgettable characters, and I’ve been dying (too soon?) to ask: which one are you?
Are you the one holding a clipboard and quietly keeping everything together? The one who shows up with lobster rolls and information at the perfect moment? The one whose entire personality is caffeine and sharp observations? Or, God forbid, are you the seagull?
Take this highly scientific, completely unofficial quiz to find out. (Results are for entertainment purposes only. I am not responsible for any existential crises or sudden cravings for chowder.)
🎯 THE QUIZ
Q1: It’s the morning of a big event and something has already gone sideways. What are you doing?
- A) Checking my clipboard and reciting the list in my head because the list never lies
- B) Making coffee for everyone and lowkey already knowing who’s responsible
- C) Showing up with food and intel, looking effortlessly stylish despite the chaos
- D) Photographing every moment of it for the algorithm
- E) Stealing someone’s scone and feeling zero remorse
Q2: A suspicious stranger walks into your world. Your first instinct is:
- A) Smile politely, file away everything they say, and make a mental note to check the ledger later
- B) Pour their coffee, mutter “grump” under your breath, and proceed to read them for filth to gossip to your best friend
- C) Research them thoroughly before committing to an opinion — also, are those genuine vintage cufflinks?
- D) Start filming immediately because this is content
- E) Hiss at them and knock something off a railing for good measure
Q3: Your ideal Saturday looks like:
- A) A fresh notebook, strong coffee, and a problem to solve — ideally before anyone else notices there is one
- B) Chaos managed beautifully, laughing until your sides hurt, and getting absolutely nothing on your to-do list done
- C) A thrift find, a good bourbon, and one genuinely fascinating historical scandal to dig into
- D) A ring light, a great angle, and forty-seven thousand people hanging on your every word
- E) Theft. Unapologetic, theatrical theft.
Q4: Someone drops a bombshell in front of a crowd. You:
- A) Stay completely calm on the outside while internally connecting seventeen dots at once
- B) Gasp dramatically, squeeze your best friend’s arm, and immediately need to debrief over scones
- C) File it under “interesting” and go dig up everything you can find about it in public records
- D) Go live instantly — your followers NEED to know about this
- E) Swoop in, take what you want, and leave absolute chaos in your wake
Q5: How do your friends describe you?
- A) “She’s the one who keeps the lights on — literally and figuratively.”
- B) “She’s been my best friend since fifth grade and she’s never once let me down.”
- C) “Effortlessly stylish, knows everything about everyone, shows up with bourbon and lobster rolls when it counts.”
- D) “Complicated. But she means well. Mostly.”
- E) “He’s a menace. But he’s our menace.”
🎭 THE RESULTS
Mostly A’s — You’re Rina Delaney 🧭 Innkeeper. List-maker. Reluctant detective.
You are the keeper of the flame — literally and figuratively. You make the scones, you check the ledger, you notice when the master key goes missing before anyone else even knew there was a master key. You carry the weight of everything you love quietly and completely, and when things fall apart you don’t spiral — you make a list. You have your grandmother’s instincts, her stubbornness, and her absolute refusal to give up on something worth saving. People underestimate you. That’s fine. You’ve solved harder problems than them before breakfast.
Your spirit animal: A well-organized clipboard with excellent handwriting and a hint of supernatural intuition.
Mostly B’s — You’re Tessa Williams ☕ Best friend. B&B assistant. Stress-scone professional.
You are the person everyone wants in their corner when everything goes sideways — which in Beacon Harbor is basically always. You show up with coffee, with sarcasm, with powdered sugar already somehow on your cheek, and with an absolute willingness to follow your best friend into danger while loudly pointing out that it’s a terrible idea. You are warm, you are funny, you are loyal to a fault, and your running commentary on any given crisis is arguably the best part of the whole disaster. Also, you stress-eat scones, which honestly? Relatable.
Your spirit animal: A fresh carafe of coffee appearing at exactly the right moment.
Mostly C’s — You’re Marlowe Finch 🪙 Antique dealer. Town historian. Surprise lobster roll deliverer.
You moved here two years ago and somehow became the unofficial keeper of everyone’s secrets, history, and most inconvenient truths. You are effortlessly stylish in a way that looks accidental but absolutely isn’t, you know where all the bodies are buried (figuratively — mostly), and you show up at pivotal moments with exactly the right information, the best bourbon, and a vintage jacket that somehow works in every situation. You’re curious, resourceful, and you have a gift for making people feel like you’ve known them forever.
Your spirit animal: A beautifully preserved historical document that cracks a case wide open.
Mostly D’s — You’re Sylvia Nolan 📱 (@SylbytheSea — You know. You have the handle memorized.)
Listen, you are complicated. You lead with your heart and your ring light, and sometimes those two things get tangled up in each other. But here’s what’s also true: when something is genuinely wonderful — like Bruno’s chowder — you say so loudly and completely and forty-seven thousand people hear it. You capture moments that matter. You build community in your own chaotic, aesthetically-lit way. The trick is remembering that some moments deserve to stay offline. The harbor at sunset? That one’s for you.
Your spirit animal: A ring light blazing in the fog — dramatic, unmissable, and occasionally heroic.
You got BINGO/GERALD (Bonus results for the chaos gremlins) 🐱🐦
You’re Bingo if: You show up dramatically when needed, knock things over constantly, knead biscuits on someone’s chest at 6 AM, and radiate smug certainty at all times. You are the chaos that keeps order. You are the loudest presence in any room. You are Gran Rose’s cat and you have decided the innkeeper is the hired help.
You’re Gerald if: You have looked at every social convention, every rule of decorum, every “please don’t steal my scones” sign — and you have chosen to ignore them all. But the beautiful thing about you? When it really matters, when chaos turns dangerous and someone needs saving, you show up. Swooping out of the fog at the exact right moment. Because underneath all that audacious larceny? You’re a hero. Nobody has to know.
Whoever you got — welcome to the Compass Rose crew. We’re a little chaotic, deeply loyal, and apparently irresistible to murder investigations. If you haven’t already met us in Death on a Dinner Cruise: A Compass Rose B&B Mystery, get ready to pre-order your copy by following on Instagram and signing up for my newseltter to find out what your character would actually do when the lights go out on the Blue Heron. 🔪☕
(Spoiler: there are more characters and fun than this quiz suggests. Also Gerald steals a bunch of scones. You’ll see.)
This turkey could very well be me. I’ve spent the past week with a tech issue that left me saying “this is for the birds” more than once and if I could have pecked at the screen, I would have done that too!
