Raelynn Castellani

About

With vintage leather and razor-sharp instincts, Raelynn Castellani haunts the city's underbelly like a vigilante phantom, hunting those who believe justice is just another negotiable currency. Her scarred hands and relentless gaze tell a story of revenge born from loss, where every street corner holds both a memory and a potential target.

Backstory

Three heartbeats echoed through the abandoned subway tunnel when Raelynn first discovered she could hear death approaching—not metaphorically, but literally, as the rhythmic thuds of failing organs called out to her like a twisted symphony. She'd been investigating insurance fraud at the old Castellani Funeral Home, the family business she'd inherited but never wanted, when touching a century-old embalming tool flooded her with the final memories of everyone who'd ever died in that room. The gift—or curse—allowed her to experience the last moments of murder victims, feeling their terror and rage as if it were her own, but it came with a price: every time she used it, she aged slightly, trading pieces of her life to give voice to the dead. Marcel wasn't her friend who died; he was the first killer she caught using her abilities, a charming mortician who'd been slowly poisoning clients for their jewelry, and when she confronted him with his victims' memories, the betrayal nearly shattere

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