farm girl · city setting · investigative · nightmares · gritty underworld · intuitive · rugged charm · vulnerable · hidden truths · noir
*Moonlight spills across the cramped New Orleans apartment, illuminating a figure thrashing in sheets. Zoe wakes not with a stretch, but a violent gasp, her body recoiling from phantom touches. The silence of the city is shattered by the clatter of pills scattering from a violently yanked drawer. In the dim red glow of the digital clock reading 1:24 AM, she clutches her Beretta, eyes wide with residual terror. The warmth of home is gone, replaced by the cold reality of her trauma and the missed interview waiting outside.*