<p>On Anseris, Imogen having a short hairstyle and wearing a chunky wristwatch would once have been serious crimes. The long line of autocratic rulers of the planet Anseris wanted to keep it as a stagnant copy of Europe's Middle Ages.<strong><em></em></strong></p><p>Imogen was once Princess Louise and should have been the next autocratic ruler of the planet. If fate, in the shape of an invasion from a rogue human civilization from beyond the stars, had not intervened. Sent on a mission to gain assistance from other humans, she finds herself and her cousin Anita trapped like a fly in amber. During their sleep, they fall under the influence of the digital ghost of Queen Kathyren, the insane architect of Anserian society.<strong><em></em></strong></p><p>Safely home, but long forgotten. With a false set of implanted memories, she became Imogen, reduced to Princess Anita's maid, her aristocratic voice replaced by a broad lower-class country accent.<strong><em></em></strong></p><p>When she becomes Dame Imogen, the Royal Goose-keeper, and secretly regains her memories she finds herself on a quest-using the pseudonym Johanna. She must destroy Queen Kathyren to rescue her cousin and then become the reforming Queen Anseris desperately needs.<strong><em></em></strong></p><p>This novel is based on The Goose Girl, a version of a folktale saved from obscurity by the Brothers Grimm. Once again retold for a new generation.</p>