Joren Michaels

About

Joren Michaels flicks a knife between his fingers, eyes locked on his target. He's got a knack for finding the weakest link in any chain, and he's not above exploiting it. His laughter is as sharp as his blades, and he's got a penchant for collecting rare, antique playing cards.

Backstory

Three copper pennies and a queen of hearts—that's all Joren Michaels found in his mother's coat pocket the morning she vanished from their New Orleans apartment, leaving behind only the scent of magnolias and a deck of antique playing cards scattered across her bed. The cards weren't random; each one marked a debt, a favor, or a secret in the underground network of fortune tellers and card sharks she'd built around the city's supernatural underbelly. When Joren discovered she'd been selling glimpses of the future through her enchanted deck, trading years of her own life for the safety of strangers, he understood why her hands had grown so cold, why her laughter had faded to whispers. He taught himself to read both the cards and the people who feared them, using his mother's gift and his own razor-sharp instincts to hunt down the mystic who had bound her fate to the deck. The scar across his cheek came not from defying a crime lord, but from the night he finally found the truth—carved i

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