Juliana Georgescu

Juliana Georgescu, a character in the Crimes of Passion series, was Trystan's late fiancée. She makes her first appearance in Book 2, Chapter 1, although she can be mentioned for the first time in Book 1, Chapter 2.

Appearance
Juliana had long wavy brown hair, green eyes, and light skin. She wore a red lipstick, and a long-sleeved beige dress.

Personality
According to Olivia and Marguerite, Juliana was a reformer and a political activist. She was also a kind and gentle woman, rallying for change in Drakovia's system of governance. According to Sebastyan, she was level-headed, responsible, and she had plans for hers and Drakovia's future. Marguerite remembers her as non-confrontational.

Background
According to Marguerite, Juliana was very popular and beloved as a Countess, and she came from money because her parents owned the bulk of Drakovia's energy industry at the time. The night that she disappeared, she and Trystan were on their yacht and there was a storm. She was found a few days later up the coast, face down. The autopsy was unclear because her body was in a bad condition, but the authorities deduced that Juliana died from a head injury after tripping on a loose topsail rope. They also mentioned that she most likely went over the side, and that she was dead before she even hit the water.

Book 1

 * Chapter 2: Follow My Lead (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 4: The Royal Treatment (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 5: Up In Flames (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 6: Sleep When You’re Dead (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 9: The Rite Track (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 10: Behind the Mask (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 12: Sabbatical (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 13: A Stab in the Dark (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 17: The Long Goodbye (Mentioned)

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: To Catch A Thief
 * Chapter 2: The Price of Infamy (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 3: Drakovian Intelligence
 * Chapter 4: Objection (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 5: A Rose Among Thornes (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 6: Served Cold (Mentioned)

Trystan Thorne
Juliana was Trystan's fiancée whom she was arranged to be married to. Trystan's father called it "the bridging of two great houses". At first both Trystan and Juliana fought it tooth and nail and bickered, but eventually their fighting led to a shared passion. Marguerite says that they were wild about each other in the end, and that they were good for Drakovia as well. According to Trystan, they borrowed his/her father's yacht for a two-day pleasure cruise around the island for Juliana's birthday. During the night that Juliana disappeared there was a storm, and Trystan and she were drinking. They then went to bed together, and when Trystan woke up, Juliana was gone. Trystan blames himself/herself for her death, because he/she says that he/she was supposed to tie the topsail rope up the night before, but he/she has no recollection of doing so. When her body was eventually found, the Justice Office started working backwards and tried to find someone to blame, and Trystan was the easy scapegoat because of his/her answer regarding to whether he/she tied to topsail rope. At first Trystan said yes, until they kept questioning him/her over again, leading to coaching a confession out of him/her.

Olivia Nevrakis
Olivia and Juliana were classmates at finishing school. By the time the two were ready to graduate, they basically ran the place. She considered Juliana to be a reformer, and such people are rare in royalty, particularly Drakovia. The last time they met was at Juliana's engagement party. She believes Juliana did not deserve her end. She does not believe that Trystan Thorne killed Juliana, and thinks that Drakovia covered up the crime very neatly, on the grounds that the results of the case were exactly how she would handle a cover-up.

Marguerite Thorne
Marguerite and Juliana were friends before the latter and Trystan met because their mothers used to run in the same circles. Juliana was several years older than Marguerite, but they bonded while suffering through insufferable tea parties and other similar events. When Juliana disappeared, Marguerite led the search party. She believes that someone tampered with the evidence and moved the body because Juliana was found six hundred miles from where she'd gone overboard, against the current no less.

During Trystan's trial, Marguerite says that Juliana was not dating anyone else when she and Trystan began their engagement.

Trivia

 * Her character model resembles Madeleine Amaranth from The Royal Romance.
 * In Book 2, Chapter 4, it is revealed that she wanted to pass a law that would recognize all children of the king or queen as legitimate.