The Countess of Blackwater, Volume 1

What if The Goose Girl grew up inside The Count of Monte Cristo?

Princess Eloise Marain Dantys was raised to become a treaty bride. Since childhood, she has exchanged letters with Prince Albert of Liane, the boy promised to her by law and slowly loved by choice. When she finally leaves Aragara for Liane, she believes she is sailing toward marriage, duty, and a future built from eleven years of ink and hope.

Instead, her trusted companion steals everything.

Her name.

Her jewels.

Her documents.

Her place beside the prince.

Her future.

Under the protection of the Ten-Year Veil, a law that prevents Aragara from inspecting its royal daughter for a decade, the false bride enters Liane as Princess Eloise. She marries Albert, charms the court, and builds a public life so useful and beloved that the lie becomes harder to question with every passing year.

But the real Eloise does not die.

The sea refuses her. Blackwater finds her. And the girl who was abandoned on the rocks becomes Lady Loïs de Montevar, Countess of Blackwater — a woman with no patience for sentimental revenge and every intention of making the truth legally, publicly, and politically unavoidable.

Volume 1 of The Countess of Blackwater begins a sweeping literary revenge saga inspired by The Count of Monte Cristo and The Goose Girl. This opening volume follows the stolen bride, the false princess, the making of the Countess, and the first elegant steps of Blackwater’s return to Liane.

For readers who love:

dark fairy-tale retellings

slow-burn revenge

court intrigue

stolen identity

romantic tragedy

women rebuilding power after betrayal

beautifully written literary drama

political secrets, ledgers, witnesses, and old crimes that refuse to stay buried

This is Volume 1 of an ongoing saga.

The story continues in Volume 2: https://payhip.com/b/nqsJG