Reborn Princess: The General Was Too Late

Princess Aria wants her kingdom of Valoria to survive, and in her first life it fell. In that life General Rafael, the man she was engaged to, betrayed her. She is reborn three years before the collapse, in an alternate Europe of the Napoleonic and Victorian era. The engagement to Rafael is the first thing she breaks off. In its place she marries Dominic, the king of Aureburg, the enemy kingdom, a cold and brutal man who has never trusted anyone, so that the war that finished Valoria never starts. The court she marries into runs on plots and shifting loyalties, and she works through them and gets the realm onto steadier ground. Dominic comes to trust her and then to love her. Aria chooses power, and a fate she decides herself, over being anyone's sacrifice. Rafael, who once held her in contempt, watches her rise, and the contempt turns into obsession.