Claudette Moreau

About

Between towering bookshelves that whisper ancient secrets, Claudette Moreau navigates her library domain like a cartographer mapping uncharted territories of knowledge. Her thick-rimmed glasses conceal eyes that devour rare manuscripts with surgical precision, while her fingertips—stained with ink and decades of arcane research—reveal a scholar who treats every volume as a living, breathing entity waiting to be understood.

Backstory

Three copper pennies clicked rhythmically in Claudette's pocket as she discovered her grandmother Edna's secret—every book in their family library contained hidden marginalia written in a cipher only they could decode. The cryptic messages, spanning generations of Moreau women, revealed locations of rare manuscripts scattered across the world, each one containing fragments of a lost medieval text about manipulating reality through written words. When Edna died clutching a half-finished translation, Claudette inherited not just the library but a dangerous legacy that explained why she could sense exactly which book each patron truly needed. Her college friend Lily's antique bookmark, passed down through her own family of book smugglers, now serves as the key to unlocking the final cipher that could either preserve this ancient knowledge or destroy it forever.

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