NORA BLACK

Despite being a top model, gracing magazine covers and runways around the world, Nora found her true calling in the fight for justice. Particularly cases neglected by the authorities. She left behind a successful career on the runway to lead a community-owned private investigation cooperative, Black PI. Her firm specializes in missing women of color. In this gritty political drama, she uncovers dark secrets in search of these forgotten women. 

Nora is educated, wealthy, assured, a trait shaped by years in the fashion industry. Beyond appearances, she is keenly intuitive, an intellectual, and empath. Her investigations cut through corporate conspiracies, political corruption, and an intensifying conflict with a Christofascist militia. Black PI will risk everything—her license, the revolution, even her comrades—to bring these cold cases out of the shadows and into the light.

A cold case involving an immigrant worker who vanished without a trace on the previous Fourth of July. A terrorist bombing at a bakery co-op, potentially an attempt to assassinate a populist mayoral candidate. The police drag their feet, refuse to investigate, or, in turn, investigate Nora. She’s on her own. 

Nora will use everything she has: her McGuyvering skills, community connections, and an increasingly eerie intuition. The stakes mount as her investigations expose corruption and conspiracy, risking a civil war, with Rock City at its epicenter. 

After her apartment is broken into, and she’s followed, fear and tension mount. Nora fears for her life and the lives of her friends. Instinctively, several intense and visually striking ancestral rituals, apparently rooted in African and Caribbean traditions, force their way into her consciousness. 

As Nora delves into these spiritual practices, her intuition deepens. This provides a crucial anchor, helping her navigate the dangers of her case as she connects more profoundly with herself. As the case and the conflict with New Earth intensify, she fears doing what is right may lead to unimaginable loss and a haunting guilt for the deadly consequences.

RUBY RED

Ruby Red was a famous OnlyFans model who lost her platform, her bank account, and her public audience overnight. One of millions of American women erased by systemic financial and moral crackdowns. Cut off from visibility and income, she joined Rock City Defense. 

Ruby has always understood power through physical manifestation, but her new role in community security shifts that expression. Her confrontation with Simon pushes the limits of this burgeoning philosophy, as she redirects authority, endurance, and self-possession into a community defense network. While she grows and changes, so does her attempt to build an altogether different kind of justice system, created by and for women.

RUTH COLSON

Codename Goldbeak, Ruth is a fierce, determined leader. A country girl with a strong fundamentalist Christian background, powerful connections, and, some say, a knack for prophecy. Once a devoted mother, her life took a wrong turn after her son’s death in a logging accident, for which she blames Will McKinley.

Wanting revenge against Will, she aligns with corporate interests and a far-right terrorist group, New Earth. She is pragmatic, resourceful, and deeply committed to protecting her beliefs and reuniting with her son, whether on the New Earth, in Heaven, or in Hell. She’s a natural leader, commanding loyalty. But her grief and bitterness make her a complex antagonist, challenging the Commune.

SIMON LEVINE

Simon is a particularly sadistic Mossad agent, now operating in Rock City as a state-sanctioned killer and chaos agent, with ties to multiple intelligence agencies. Born to wealthy Ethiopian-Jewish parents, Simon served in the Israeli Occupation Forces during the genocide in Gaza. During that time, he participated in countless war crimes, executing unarmed civilians, medical professionals, and numerous children.

He justifies his actions through the lens of Zionism, especially against Arabs. For Simon, Jews are God’s chosen people, and everyone else is a goyim, a subclass of humans. He is a master of deception, using several aliases to blend into both Black and white American cultures. His mission in Rock City is to undermine the Commune, the feminist movement, and sew as much chaos as he can. 

He will do anything, no matter how ruthless.