Helen Beckitt

Helen Beckitt is a female human, and a practitioner with limited magical talent. She appeared in Storm Front, White Night, and Small Favor.

Biography
She was married to Greg Beckitt, and they had a daughter named Amanda Beckitt. Amanda was shot in a crossfire between Johnny Marcone and a Jamaican gang, three years before the events of Storm Front. The shooter was never found, so they resolved to get vengeance upon Marcone, who they knew was responsible. He offered them reparation, but they turned it down. They attempted to file a wrongful death lawsuit, but couldn't win against Marcone's lawyers.

Since they couldn't beat him by legal means, the two eventually hooked up with Victor Sells, participating in rituals to help make the Three-Eye drug and death curses in order to sabotage Marcone's business. They were both arrested for indecent exposure, and were later charged with drug distribution.

She returns in White Night, without Greg (as he was killed in jail), as a member of the small magical group Ordo Lebes. She's suspected of helping the murderer of the practitioners, but it turns out that she was a red herring. It's revealed that she is now working for Johnny Marcone, under the alias of Ms. Demeter - an amusing pun, but also a reference to the Greek goddess. She also seems to be John's lover. We are not completely certain why this is, but it can be assumed that she is working and sleeping with a man she hates in order to gain his trust so that she can stab him in the back at a later date.

In this book, Harry engages in a soulgaze with her, wherein the scars from the trauma of watching her child die are confirmed. The soulgaze implies that she's stuck in a loop, repeating the incident in her head over and over again.

We see her again, briefly, in Small Favor. She gives Harry the location to Marcone's safe-house. She also gives it to the Denarians.

Description
Harry describes Helen as having "a calm face, entirely void of emotion. It was a little spooky. She had the look I'd seen in films, on the faces of prisoners released from the German stalags at the end of World War II. Empty. Numb. Dead, and just didn't know it yet." She claims that she's "a functional borderline psychopath... Heartless, calculating, empty, and can muster very little in the way of empathy for my fellow human beings." This is discredited somewhat by her deep mourning over the loss of her daughter, as well as the obvious affection she shows towards her fellow Ordo members.