The Last Winter Peony

In my first life, I was Basia Rostova, the forgotten daughter of a powerful house, a quiet archivist who watched as the Kingdom of Tchernev was swallowed by the Silent Blight, an unstoppable magical corruption that withered the land and drove its people to madness. I died clutching my brother’s cold hand, my last sight the crumbling spires of our capital. Now, I have woken up at my own engagement ceremony, ten years before the fall. This betrothal, I now know, was the first domino to fall in the kingdom’s ruin. To save my family and everyone I ever loved, I must break it and seek a new alliance with Vasyan Moroz, the cold and calculating head of the merchant guild who became a formidable warlord in the future - a man my family despises. But every change I make to the timeline pulls at the threads of fate in ways I cannot predict. The Silent Blight seems to be accelerating, and a new, more intelligent threat lurks in the shadows. Can I rewrite our tragic history, or will my attempts only create a prophecy of ruin far worse than the one I remember?