two gangster brothers, a catholic priest, and a british ex-butler?
lol interesting
First character:
A thirty-something French archeologist with delusions of grandeur and plenty of "c'est la vie". I'm thinking she's the daughter of a famous archeologist and spent most of her childhood knocking around the world with her father learning the trade and her young adulthood probably knocking boots around the world as well. She's made quite a name for herself (in both areas) since her father died and left his legacy to her.
Quite a bourgeois world traveller?
Second character:
Photographer for the New York Times who's dying to prove her worth as a reporter. She's hot on the trail of anything interesting hoping to win a chance to prove herself to her editor and win that coveted byline, not to mention to the Pulitzer. Hard-nosed, willing to do anything to get a story, quite fearless and determined and many times quite reckless, she's opinionated and quite the feminist. Her family is NYC old money and quite horrified that their only daughter has gone this route to become more independent from them. They're constantly trying to get her to come back but she wants fame not fortune, glory not gauche tea parties in the sun.
Lois Lane in the 1920's?
So which one do you think?
I'll have to read through the whole thread and to see where to fit her in if you don't have any ideas.