FORGET ME NOT

In the villages and spa towns of Bohemia, two families live for decades without knowing that their futures are quietly moving toward one another.Mathilde Glaser, the strong-willed daughter of a Bergreichenstein architect, falls in love with Michael Fuchs, a glassworker from Annathal. Together they build a family shaped by faith, hard work, devastating loss, and the upheavals that transform the Austro-Hungarian Empire into Czechoslovakia.A generation later, Anna Stingl grows up in Karlsbad beneath the rule of a volatile mother and a father who recognizes her intelligence but denies her the opportunities granted to his son. Anna works from childhood, protects her younger sisters, and dreams of a life in which usefulness is not the price of safety. Her chance arrives through an application written on paper faintly marked by pressed forget-me-nots.The man who notices it is Andreas Fuchs.Their meeting begins a tender courtship conducted through flowers, letters, hotel corridors, and journeys between towns whose names-and national identities-are already beginning to change. Around them, economic collapse and political resentment prepare the way for a darker Europe.Inspired by family letters, documents, photographs, and stories passed through generations, Forget Me Not is a historical family saga about women's hidden labor, the seductions of nationalism, the search for home, and the fragile objects that carry love across war, displacement, and time.