Elena Garcia

About

Elena Garcia taps her fingers on the antique desk, counting the seconds until her next arranged meeting. She's got a penchant for sketching intricate patterns in the margins of her ledgers, a habit that's saved her from countless dull conversations.

Backstory

Three stolen nights Elena spent decoding her grandmother's encrypted trading manifests, discovering the Garcia family fortune was built on smuggling rare cartographic instruments across hostile borders during wartime. Her mother's "cartography hobby" had been an elaborate front for an underground network of female mapmakers who secretly charted safe passages for refugees, their intricate sketches containing life-saving coordinates disguised as decorative flourishes. When fever took her mother's life, Elena inherited not just empty rooms but a dangerous legacy of encoded maps and hidden enemies who would kill to possess them. Now her father's arranged marriage serves as the perfect cover—while suitors discuss dowries, Elena continues her mother's covert work, sketching escape routes in ledger margins as her sister Evelyn unknowingly guards the door.

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