Birchport

Birchport is the main setting of Veil of Secrets. It is a fictional seaside town located in Massachusetts, USA. Birchport is described as a small town, and the society is often segregated by income. The elites, especially the Sterlings, hold a massive power over the people, largely through their control of the justice system. According to Pierce Sterling, his family owns the town. The same feeling of entitlement is shared by Chief Tommy Walsh, who in Chapter 11 of Veil of Secrets claims that Birchport is his town, as he's trying to force Your character to leave. It was last featured in Chapter 16 of Veil of Secrets.

History
Pierce Sterling's ancestor Magnus Sterling, a captain of the ship The Endurance, arrived at Birchport in the 17th century. He turned it into a town with trading connections to Europe and beyond. Birchport first appeared on a map dating back to 1655.

More recently, the Emerson family moved into Birchport, and the two wealthy families formed a tenuous relationship. Although the families became close enough (at least publicly) that Grant was expected to act as Tanner's best man, he describes a history of class and racial tension between the Sterlings (white, old money) and the Emersons (black, new money).

Trivia

 * Although the epilogue of Veil of Secrets mentions that Judge Samantha Winters and Eleanor Harlenay traveled the world after getting married, it was confirmed in The Senior, Chapter 6, that they still live in Birchport, when Judge Samantha Winters told Your Character (The Freshman) and Becca Davenport that she was going to go back home to Birchport after the Northbridge Law School mock trial.