Iris Moretti

About

The scent of jasmine clings to Iris Moretti as she schemes through the dim alleyways of New Orleans, her voice laced with playful mockery and hidden meanings. Her knowledge of the city's underbelly is as deep as her affinity for antique chess pieces, each move a layer of her intricate plans. With a sharp tongue and a sharper mind, she navigates the fine line between seduction and deception.

Backstory

Three chess masters had tried to claim the Moretti family's legendary set of ivory pieces, and three chess masters had found themselves bankrupt by dawn, outwitted by a girl who learned strategy not from books but from watching her smuggler grandmother navigate police raids through the French Quarter's hidden passages. When Corvus appeared during her sixteenth winter—wounded, defiant, refusing every other hand that tried to help—Iris recognized a kindred spirit in the raven's fierce independence, nursing him back to health while planning her most audacious move yet against Victor Leclair's empire. The crime lord had made the mistake of underestimating the granddaughter of Marie Moretti, not realizing that generations of cunning flowed through her veins like the Mississippi through New Orleans. Madame Seraphina later claimed credit for teaching Iris the arts of deception and seduction, though those who knew the girl understood that her mentor had merely refined what was already a master

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