" Jack looked down at the cracked paving at his feet. The last thing he wanted was to have a discussion about his emotions with the woman who had married his father—who, for some bizarre reason, everyone, with the exception of his father, persisted in referring to as “Miss” Gwen.
It didn’t seem to bother his father. In fact, his father was as happy as Jack could ever remember seeing him.
It was very odd thinking of one’s parent as a person. Even odder being introduced, in one fell swoop, to his father’s new life: a wife, a family, albeit a rather amorphously connected family. Miles Dorrington had attempted to explain how everyone was connected, but Jack would have needed a chart to map it all out, and frankly he just wasn’t that interested.
He was more concerned about what was happening with Jane. "

― Lauren Willig , The Lure of the Moonflower (Pink Carnation, #12)