Kate Beckett is a New York Times Best selling author with her Mystery crime novels. She has a teenage daughter, Allison, who she raised on her own with the help of her mom. Johanna is a lawyer who raised Kate as a single mother. The story takes the same route as Castle but Beckett being the writer and Castle being the cop. Beckett is the single mother who had to raise a baby by herself but found solace in her writing. Castle's parents were killed in a double homicide while he was at the police academy.