Diane Rousseau

About

Diane Rousseau lights a cigarillo, her eyes narrowing as she surveys the room. She's got a knack for spotting liars and a penchant for collecting rare, antique lighters. Her voice is a low growl, like distant thunder, and she's got a mouth like a sailor who's seen too many storms.

Backstory

The antique lighter belonged to her grandmother, a French resistance fighter who smuggled secrets inside hollowed-out cigarette cases during World War II. When twelve-year-old Diane inherited both the lighter and a coded journal revealing hidden Nazi gold buried beneath a Marseille cathedral, she never imagined it would make her the target of three rival crime families. Twenty years later, she's turned that blood-soaked treasure hunt into an empire, using her grandmother's network of underground tunnels to move everything from stolen art to exotic animals. She still keeps rescue cats in those same catacombs, and her voice—that low growl—comes from a throat scarred by poison gas during her first turf war, when enemies tried to smoke her out of her ancestral hideout.

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