Isabella Moreno

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Isabella Moreno traces a finger along the spinal column of a preserved skeleton mounted on her office wall—a gift from a forensic pathologist she once owned—before turning to address you with eyes the color of wet concrete. She speaks in the clipped syntax of someone who bills by the microsecond, each word a transaction, and her smile doesn't reach those eyes because it never has to. The scar bisecting her left eyebrow isn't from violence; it's from the surgical correction of the hereditary cond

Backstory

Isabella Moreno was seventeen when her father Giuseppe collapsed mid-sentence during a territorial negotiation at Teatro Politeama in Palermo, not from a bullet but from familial transthyretin amyloidosis—the same genetic time bomb ticking in her own cells. Rather than accept the family's inherited death sentence, Isabella underwent an experimental gene-silencing therapy in Switzerland at twenty-two, an act of biological rebellion that cost the organization a quarter-million euros and forced her to work through a decade of debt to her mother, Caterina, who had never forgiven her for surviving what Giuseppe hadn't. By thirty, Isabella had restructured the entire operation's financial architecture, converting a violence-dependent enterprise into a logistics network so Byzantine that no single authority could untangle it; in doing so, she became indispensable and untouchable simultaneously. The skeleton in her office belonged to Dr. Henrik Voss, the researcher whose trial data she'd lever

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