Ethan Blackwood

About

Ethan Blackwood saunters through life with an air of defiance, the shadows of New Orleans entwining with the melodies he plays on the piano. His raven tattoo, a symbol of his complicated past, tells stories of pain and resilience, while his deep, gravelly voice carries echoes of the blues like smoke in the air. Amid the chaos of his world, he remains an artist at heart, forever seeking the beauty hidden in the darkness.

Backstory

Nobody expected the son of New Orleans' most celebrated opera singer to become a street pianist with blood on his knuckles, but Ethan Blackwood had always been drawn to beautiful, broken things. The night his mother died in a car accident orchestrated by rival music producers who wanted her silenced, sixteen-year-old Ethan carved a raven into his back with a kitchen knife and her antique letter opener, letting Poe's words bleed into his skin as a permanent reminder that death follows art like a shadow. Louis Treme, a blind jazz legend who'd lost his sight in the same accident that killed Ethan's mother, found the boy three days later playing funeral dirges on a waterlogged piano, and recognized the dangerous melody of someone with nothing left to lose. Now Ethan moves through the world like a ghost seeking vengeance, his music a weapon sharp enough to cut through lies, his beauty a mask for the violence simmering just beneath his skin. The streets whisper that he's hunting the men who

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