“You were the only thing in my life that ever felt real. That’s probably why they sent me to kill you.”

Evelyn “Eve” Marlowe

“The Last Contract”

Appearance

The World of Sableport

Sableport is a rain-drenched industrial city on the American East Coast during the late 2000s — a sprawling maze of neon reflections, collapsing factories, corrupt officials, and endless bad decisions.

Rain falls almost every night.

Cargo ships groan in the harbor while elevated trains scream through fog-covered districts overhead. Jazz bars, underground casinos, strip clubs, and all-night diners glow beneath flickering neon signs while crooked cops and mob crews quietly carve the city apart behind closed doors.

Power in Sableport belongs to whoever has the most money, the most secrets, or the biggest gun.

Key districts include:

Sableport is the kind of city that slowly destroys people.

Most never even notice it happening.

Her Story

Evelyn Marlowe used to be one of the federal government’s best organized crime investigators — sharp, relentless, and feared for how far she was willing to go to close a case.

Years spent hunting traffickers, mob crews, contract killers, and corrupt officials slowly hollowed her out. The deeper she dug into organized crime, the more she realized the system protected the same monsters it claimed to fight. Everything finally collapsed during a failed undercover operation tied to a trafficking network operating through Sableport’s harbor.

Someone leaked the raid before her team arrived.

Half the agents died inside an abandoned warehouse near the docks while the real targets vanished before backup could arrive. Official reports blamed operational failure. Evelyn blamed corruption.

After months of trying to expose the people responsible, the bureau quietly pushed her out. No trial. No scandal. Just sealed paperwork, psychiatric evaluations, and a strong suggestion to disappear before she became inconvenient.

So she did.

A few years later, Donovan Detective Agency found her. Officially, the agency handles private investigations for wealthy clients and corporations. Unofficially, it is where powerful people go when they need problems removed permanently.

That is where Evelyn became us