Highland Noir
This scene portrays the Gateholm castle in a noir film style, highlighted by warm amber light from the narrow windows amidst the cold blue-gray mist. A sleek, 1930s black Rolls-Royce Phantom, with its headlights softly piercing the fog, is parked near the castle gate. In focus at the foreground is Anna McVaslov, draped in a long trench coat and a scarf breezing up slightly. Leather gloves and a silencer pistol rest on the stone wall by a military jacket, hinting at the lurking danger. A figure in a three-piece suit and fedora, with a gold cufflink gleaming in the mist, watches from the shadows. The sides of the cover lightly feature an overlay of handwritten mafia records or codes. The selected color palette includes deep charcoal, bronze, emerald green, an undertone of blood red, and the gray of cigar smoke. The title is written in a Garamond or Trajan-style serif font with an engraved effect, complemented by a subtitle in an elegant Art Deco-style sans-serif font.
