Until You Say Otherwise by Kate Hawthorne

She gives him a count of three to get off the top of his bed and come sleep with them, chastising Ben for letting him watch movies like E.T.: The Extraterrestrial. Neither believe their son's claim that there's an alien under the bed who tried to kill him and she tells him that she can't do another night with no sleep. That evening, she and her husband Ben hear their son screaming. As she is unable to see Vanderspeigle's true form, she is confused when her son screams upon seeing him and then rushes back to their car, locking the doors. Kate Hawthorne is out walking with her son Max, her holding his hand, when she two of them encounter the alien who is masquerading as Harry Vanderspeigle. Having grown up in a large town, Kate never had the same feeling of community that many Patience natives have, but comes to appreciate the town and the people in it. She is a professional lawyer, but gave up her dream to have a family and live in Patience.

She and her husband have something of a troubled relationship, as she is an assertive, dominant personality, while he tends to be much more submissive in nature. She is a teacher at her son's school, which has led to him becoming something of an outcast among his peers. She is married to the town's mayor, Ben Hawthorne, and is the mother of the boy Max Hawthorne, who can see through the alien Harry Vanderspeigle's human disguise, as well as a currently unnamed child who was abducted from her womb by The Greys. Kate Hawthorne is a woman who lives in Patience.

Until You Say Otherwise by Kate Hawthorne