Claire

Matreya Scarrwener - "Manifest Destiny"

Claire is a re-enactor at Caine’s End, a nineteenth century western town where actors recreate an event from the town’s history in which the white and Indigenous people reconcile after years of acrimony. Claire plays the Sheriff’s daughter, who falls in love with an Indigenous man whom her father ultimately allows her to marry. Claire is thrilled to have Rosalie and Jeremy, from The Nostalgists podcast, on hand to record the re-enactment and mingle with the guests who visit the town. Claire is well aware that the story she and the others are telling is untrue–in fact, there was not a reconciliation but a massacre–but she has no idea that her two guests will spark a dangerous return to the past…