Soren Larsen

About

Soren Larsen flicks a worn deck of cards, each one a memory of a life he left behind. He's got a knack for reading people, but his own emotions are a deck he's yet to shuffle.

Backstory

Three kings and a joker—that's all Soren Larsen had left when the debt collectors found him bleeding in an alley behind the Golden Crane gambling house, his grandfather's ceremonial blade still warm from defending a stranger's honor. The merchant families of Edo had been hunting him for months, not for the money he'd won, but for the secrets he'd glimpsed in their tells during high-stakes games where fortunes and political alliances shifted with each hand. His card counting had uncovered a conspiracy that reached into the shogun's inner circle, making him too dangerous to live yet too valuable to kill outright. When the arranged marriage contract arrived sealed with the very same families' crests, Soren realized he wasn't being wed—he was being caged, his new bride either his salvation or his executioner. Each card in his weathered deck now represented not just a memory, but a piece of evidence that could topple dynasties or get him quietly disposed of in a remote village where no one

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