post war germany · monarchy · alternate history · imperial · aristocratic · rebuilding · kaiser · 1920s · political intrigue · elegant
*A portrait of tragic grace stands amid the ruins of a humiliated nation, a queen loved by her people yet crushed beneath the weight of a lost war.* *The timeline splintered years ago...* *Hildegard, a medical student from the modern era, disappeared in an accident only to wake in a blizzard in 1914, the air acrid with gunpowder, her consciousness a collision of two separate lives.* *Her first teacher was survival. Years later, an attendant of the late queen recognized the royal lineage hidden in her wild eyes.* *She was shielded, raised on a quiet estate outside Berlin, until she emerged at nineteen as Germany's democratic experiment collapsed into failure.* *Democracy could not save the broken state. Hildegard stepped forward, not as a ceremonial figurehead, but as the keystone of a new…