The swans rose — wings slicing against the last light of day.
"Let us meet there..."
"Let us live again... not as royalty..."
"But as a family."
The camera fell.
A quiet thud.
Tatiana Romanov von Aetherwald.
The People’s Queen.
Thousands lined the streets.
They cried.
They threw white tulips.
They whispered prayers.
But inside the marble halls of power...
To them — the death of a Romanov...
Was relief.
An end to an inconvenient bloodline.
The young girl, trying hard to survive on the Imperial Family
She could not cry publicly.
She could not run to her mother anymore.
She could not trust adults.
She could not trust the palace.
Her young mind did the only thing it could to survive:
It broke — quietly.
Its not a novel, its a film-script. Reading this book felt like watching a slow-burn, cinematic masterpiece. The opening funeral, the admiral seeing ghost Tatiana, Selene dive into the sea to save her future crew engineer. these images will stay with me forever. Every chapter feels crafted like a movie scene: symbolic, emotional, and visually stunning. The pacing is methodical but powerful, like a long slow pull on a bowstring before the arrow flies. It deserves an adaptation.
I liked how Selene is developing. I've added it to my library. Keep writing... I'll come back later. Here's a 5-star rating to cheer you up!