Sydney is a young woman just starting out in adult life.  She is the only daughter of Sterling and Poppy November, of the Hilton Head Novembers. Sydney grew up as a diplomat's kid; her father is a U.S. diplomat in Japan. Some of  Sydney's earliest memories are of their 'cho-house' and the neighbors always giving her free fruit.

Sydney arrived in Hathian looking for her biological father after the death of her mother. Sydney's mother, Poppy, admitted to being raped by a man in Hathian, LA and never telling a soul except Sterling.