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)
 * Chapter 7: The Drakovian Heir (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 8: Unite and Conquer (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 9: The Royal Tea (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 10: The Mask Drops (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 11: Footage Not Found (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 12: Fashion Victim (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 14: Illegitimate (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 15: The Drakovian Nightingale (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 16: Heavy Is the Crown (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.

In Book 1, Trystan states 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.

In Book 2, the version of these events slightly change, as Trystan explains he/she took Juliana out on the yacht on the night of Marguerite's debut fashion show. Juliana was upset over an argument with Sebastyan and Trystan persuaded her to leave the show with him/her, in an effort to cheer her up. By that point in their relationship, Juliana loved Trystan, and told Vasili that Trystan was a better person than he gave him/her credit for. She died believing that Trystan would make a better king/queen than Vasili.

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.

Committee
Juliana was in a committee with Nadja and Sebastyan, and they were working towards legitimizing Maksim's children with Eveline. The intended outcome of the committee was for said children to join the line of succession, but the progress was tabled before it could be brought before the Parliament. All three of them were passionate about this project. However, the momentum was stalled due to in-fighting, the committee was dissolved, and was then permanently shelved after Juliana's death.

Vasili Thorne
Vasili was Juliana's boyfriend before she was promised to Trystan. They met at Lake Skryty Summer Camp when they were idealistic teenagers and continued their secret relationship through their university years. Juliana came up with the Act for Heir Equity when nineteen years old, two years after summer camp and about two years before she sent the letter revealing her change of feelings and disgust with him.

In the middle of her relationship with Vasili, she was betrothed to Trystan. In the beginning of their engagement, she wore a locket that Vasili had given her in defiance. The two chose to identify their love akin to the Drakovian Nightingale, an ancient symbol of star-crossed lovers in Drakovia. Like the birds, they spent time mourning their lost love. However, when her feelings for Trystan evolved, she stopped fighting for the Act and returned Vasili's locket to him.

Vasili's feelings, however, did not change. As his hatred for Trystan grew, Vasili believed he had the opportunity to rid himself of the Thorne in his side by murdering him/her and framing it as an accident. When Vasili approached Juliana with his plan, she argued with him, and would not have any part in killing the man/woman she loved. When she refused and told Vasili that Trystan would be a great king/queen, Vasili killed her by injecting her with Glitter, causing her to stumble and hit her head hard. He held her as she died in his arms, and later he took her body on his skiff and gave her a burial at sea.

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.
 * In Book 2, Chapter 7, said law is revealed to be called "The Drakovian Act for Heir Equity".
 * The locket Vasili gave her is made of nickel.