The Wrong Compass Rose
The Wrong Compass Rose
In the port city of Valmara, cartographer Eloise Vance compiles the first new city map in fifty years. The old quarter vanishes the day her ink dries. Streets reroute themselves overnight. The harbor deepens where her pen marked shallows. As the city reshapes itself to match her drawings, Eloise must choose between finishing the map and erasing the only home she has ever known.
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Cast
- Eloise Vance
- A 34-year-old cartographic surveyor who discovers that her maps alter the physical city. Precise, obsessive, uncomfortable with ambiguity. She became a cartographer because maps made sense of a childhood that didn't.
- Aldric Vance
- Eloise's 78-year-old uncle, former city archivist, now in assisted living. Fading in and out of lucidity. On good days, he is wry and precise. Keeper of the family's secret history.
- Maren Soto
- A 29-year-old journalist for the Valmara Herald. Skeptical, tenacious, from a working-class family in the fishmongers' district. She believes in facts and is unsettled by anything that doesn't fit a headline.
- Commissioner Helena Voss
- City planning commissioner, 52. Pragmatic, ruthless, believes in progress as a moral good. She sees the old quarter as an obstacle and Eloise as a tool.
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