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Name: Leonora Rook
Age: 26
Occupation: Junior Deputy, Hope County Sheriff's Department
Description: 5'6" tall, brown hair usually tied back when on duty, brown eyes

Leonora Rook grew up in Denver, Colorado. Her father - a quiet, serious man who didn't take any foolishness from anyone - was a police captain, the latest in a long line of cops. The pride of the family has always been in the tradition of going into law enforcement, and it was always a given that Leonora would follow in her father's footsteps. Most of her childhood memories are of studying, drills, and discipline if she was anything less than perfect, and he would also read at length from the Constitution and give lengthy lectures to her about how they were the ones to uphold it in their work. She had few friends or hobbies, as her father discouraged anything frivolous.

When she left school she went straight into the Denver PD. While a good officer, she was very focused on her work and could get caught up in the rules, and found it difficult to get used to the camaraderie between the officers, or develop a good rapport with her partner. However, the longer she stays on the job, the more she realises that the world isn't as black and white as has been drilled into her, and that all too often the police aren't the steadfast icons of law and order that her father tried to mold her into - moreover, they were all too often used as the instruments of corruption, and to deny the Constitutional rights to the people who they were supposed to protect. She considers walking away several times, but she has no idea what else she'd do, since her whole life was directed toward this vocation.

One day, Rook stumbles upon an arrangement that the police chiefs have with a gang that she's been trying to bust for months to no avail. She tries to call out her superior officer on it, but instead of getting support she finds herself on the receiving end of another lecture, being told to get with the programme, with the promise of promotion if she plays along. Furious, Leonora goes to her father, expecting him to stand with her - instead, it's revealed that he's right at the top of the chain involved in this. He's furious that Leonora refuses to play along, and she says that the ideals he always taught her were worthless. She quits the department on the spot, and gets a call late that night to say that her father died of a heart attack in the stress that their argument brought on.

Rook inherits a cabin up in Montana that she didn't even know her father owned. Wanting to cut ties with Denver, she packs up her things and heads north. For a couple of months she lives on her savings, going out running and hiking, trying to get to know herself as the person she is underneath the job she's grown to hate. But eventually her money runs out, and with no other experience she reluctantly applies for law enforcement jobs locally - at least in the short term, she tells herself, until she figures out what she wants to do with her life. She takes a position as a Junior Deputy in Lewis and Clark County, and she hasn't even worked there for two months when the request comes in from Hope County - they're desperate for anyone who's willing to transfer, even temporarily, to give them sorely needed manpower. The other officers caution Rook against the move, saying that everyone knows what's happening up in Hope County is bad news, but she wants to prove that she's up for the challenge - to decide once and for all if she's worthy of the badge.

She finds she likes Sheriff Whitehorse a lot. He's the sort of man she wished her father was - an honourable, supportive man who wants to get the best out of his officers and would prefer to try diplomacy rather than go in guns blazing. For the first time Rook thinks that perhaps continuing to be a cop wouldn't be too bad, if it's under him. However, her happiness is short-lived when Marshal Burke insists on them invading Eden's Gate and arresting Joseph Seed. Leonora's had a couple of minor run-ins with the cult while patrolling, but has always managed to diffuse the situation peacefully, but she has a bad feeling about just walking in and arresting Joseph. She actually objects outright to the plan at first, arguing that the cult's First Amendment rights need to be respected, but Whitehorse and the Marshal show her video of the cultists kidnapping the locals, and she reluctantly agrees that something needs to be done.

Leonora is vulnerable. She's looking for her purpose and her place in the world, not to mention a Father figure. She feels the tug of Eden's Gate in the emotional part of herself, that she's not used to listening to, and wonders whether she could actually find happiness for once in her life. On the other hand, her career as a law enforcement officer is what has always defined her, whether or not she likes it, and she's afraid that there'll be nothing left of her if she casts aside the badge and what it's supposed to represent, even if she doesn't feel like she represents it any more. Her sin is pride, as she's stubbornly clinging on to the emptiness and falsehood of her life and career, through her own fear and her desperate need to fit somewhere.