Stephanie Sommers

Stephanie "Steph" Sommers is Lya Sommers stepmother due to her marriage with Lya's father, David Sommers.

She knew David since childhood but they never get together during their teens years because they were afraid to break their friendship.

They went to the same college, and had their first job in their native Seattle. When they were 26 David's new girlfriend got pregnant resulting in the birth of Lya Sommers.

However, when Lya was one month old, David separated from her mother, and a few month later, he and  Stephanie get together.

David and Rachel promised to raise Lya together. It worked for some months but after finishing college, David gets a job in Langstown. Stephanie decided to move with him but Rachel refuse to move from Seattle.

David first tried to stay involved in his daughter’s life, but the distance, and the conflicts over Alex’s behavioral problems, drove father and daughter away.

When her stepdaughter loses her stepfather, her half-brother and then her mother, Steph accepts that her husband asks for sole custody of his daughter, and must therefore take her home in addition to the couple’s three children, Hannah, Lucas and Liam.