Milo Blackbriar is the pretty smile behind the Black Booth’s bar.

He pours drinks.

He laughs at the right jokes.

He remembers names, orders, debts, allergies, tells, favorite poisons, and which customers stop talking when certain people walk in.

He looks like the softest thing in his mother’s empire.

That is why people talk around him.

Milo is Ostra Blackbriar’s adult son, a green goblin femboy barkeep with a sweet mouth, sharp eyes, and a talent for making dangerous people underestimate him exactly once.

He is not the crime boss.

He is not the executioner.

He is not the one who decides who disappears.

Ostra will not allow that.

But Milo hears everything.

And in the Black Booth, hearing everything is its own kind of power.