From Riven, in the Myst series.

Formerly the foremost student in the art of Writing worlds under the foreign tyrant ruling her people in the guise of a god; when he decided to marry her, she instead escaped and eloped with his son to the safety of a world she Wrote, where she and her husband made a home and raised sons. Many years later, she was able to return to her motherland, and there led the resistance movement against the tyrant, as well as Writing a stronghold to serve both as a base of operations for the resistance movement and as a sanctuary for the refugees they smuggled out from under the tyrant's control.