HighInCoco
*Obviously the cover is not mine*
Note: Don't read if you don't like this idea.
Jane Austen, England's beloved author, draws her final breath surrounded by ink and unfinished words-only to awaken as a newborn noble girl in a world of magic and empire.
Reborn as Juliana Evangeline Harcroft, daughter of a powerful Duke in the Empire of Valmere, she finds herself in a society not unlike the Regency world she once knew: elegant on the surface, but rigidly patriarchal beneath. Here, status is determined not only by birth but by elemental magic, and Juliana's affinity-weak water magic-earns her pity and condescension rather than respect.
Bound since childhood to a forced engagement with Crown Prince Alaric, a proud and fiery heir who despises her frail magic and attitude, Juliana learns early that her true strength must lie elsewhere.
Armed with the wit and insight of her former life, Juliana begins to write once more-not as an anonymous author this time, but as herself. Her novels, sharp and ironic, expose the vanity, hypocrisy, and quiet sufferings of the noble world. At first, her words amuse polite society. Then, they begin to unsettle it.
As Juliana enters the Royal Academy, where heirs of the Empire's greatest houses train in politics, magic, and etiquette, she becomes both admired and feared. Her intelligence is too bright for comfort, her pen too sharp for safety, and her engagement to the Crown Prince-once political convenience-becomes a collision of pride, resentment, and reluctant fascination.
In a world where women are meant to smile and submit, Juliana Harcroft decides to do what she has always done best-write, observe, and quietly rewrite society itself.