Author’s Note

Love AI or hate it, what I’m about to share is controversial: I couldn’t have done this without AI.

The images of these characters have lived in my head for a long, long time. But it was only with a little bit of luck and binary magic, I was able to create these characters is near-perfect likeness (to my vision, at least) using Midjourney. That is what kickstarted my power-writing. It’s what kickstarted over a year of meticulous and detail-oriented worldbuilding and texture, and pages of notes so long, they could have been a book of its own—all until I made it here, with more than 150,000 words, a website, and a dream. So meet them as I see them, in their own voices… in all of their uncanny glory.

If you want to create your own vision of the characters… I love that for you too. You deserve to see them in your own eyes as much as mine. Just don’t scroll down.


Albany, New York

Anne neuman

Damien Wilson

Erik wilson

Cathy langford

Charlie dewalt

beverwijck tower