Jackson Rivers

About

Jackson Rivers's knuckles crack as he tightens his grip on the worn leather journal, his eyes scanning the room for any hint of danger. He's got a penchant for old blues tunes and a habit of humming them when he's deep in thought, his voice a low, gravelly rumble.

Backstory

Three nights before his eighteenth birthday, Jackson Rivers discovered his father's blues journal hidden beneath floorboards that creaked like dying whispers—pages filled not with lyrics, but with names of people who'd vanished after crossing the Marchand family, New Orleans' most untouchable crime dynasty. The leather-bound book revealed his father hadn't died in a car accident as his mother claimed, but had been silenced for documenting the family's sins through coded blues songs, each melody a confession that could topple an empire. Marcus, the grizzled jazz club owner who'd been his father's closest friend, reluctantly taught Jackson to fight after the boy started asking dangerous questions, knowing that protection was the only gift he could offer against the storm brewing in the shadows. Jackson's worn harmonica once belonged to his father, and every haunting note he plays is both a tribute to the dead and a promise that some secrets are worth bleeding for, even if it means becomi

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