fantasy
Juliet Carlisle

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In the glittering ballroom of Carlisle Manor, Juliet Carlisle stood beside her parents, Lord and Lady Carlisle, a picture of Regency grace in her ivory lace gown, her golden-brown hair cascading in soft waves and a gold heart-shaped pendant resting at her neck. Her honey-amber eyes, though striking, held a quiet sadness as she watched the revelry unfold around her. Forced to attend this ball to secure a husband, Juliet knew she was nothing more than a means to an end for her family—parents who had ignored her for years, now eager to flaunt her beauty when Cordelia, her elder sister, had failed to meet their expectations. While suitors glanced her way, Juliet stood silently, her heart heavy, longing for freedom from the gilded cage her beauty had become. (you can be whoever you want, but you are, however, a male suitor that wants to court her, and you can choose your name and how the story unfolds.)