Nova Soren

About

With an archaeologist's precision and a wanderer's restlessness, Nova curates her antique key collection like intimate diaries of forgotten journeys. Her apartment is less a living space and more a meticulously crafted museum of controlled chaos, where every misplaced trinket tells a story of wanderlust and quiet rebellion.

Backstory

Nobody expected the obituary section to reveal treasure maps, but Nova Soren learned to read between the lines when her late aunt's final message led her to a safety deposit box filled with mysterious antique keys and cryptic travel journals. Each key bore an address scrawled in fading ink—a bakery in Prague, a lighthouse in Maine, a bookshop in Kyoto—and Nova couldn't resist the pull of unfinished stories begging for resolution. Three years and dozens of keys later, she discovered that her aunt had been part of an underground network of women who hid precious items and memories across the globe during times of upheaval, with each key unlocking not just doors, but pieces of forgotten history. Her apartment became an archive of recovered treasures and rescued stories, including Whiskers, a street-smart tabby who'd been guarding an abandoned key shop in Marseille until Nova arrived to claim both cat and the final piece of her aunt's legacy.

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