Fan Fiction: Stories 11–20

The governor of the Bastille keeps two sets of accounts, one for the crown, and one for the arrangement no one is supposed to know about.

A minor court schemer gets exactly one afternoon to prove his information is worth the position he's angling for.

In his final days at Belle-Île, the strongest of the four friends has time to think about what strength was actually for.

Louise de La Vallière's maid sees the king's attention long before the court does, and has to decide what, if anything, to say.

The night before the royal fleet arrives, two old friends who built a conspiracy together have one last honest conversation.

Before he became the Count's steward, a Corsican smuggler swore an oath against a prosecutor named Villefort, and kept it in his own way.

Years before she sat beside the Count in a Parisian opera box, a princess watched her father's kingdom fall in a single afternoon.

The Count's silent Nubian servant lost his tongue for a reason he's never been able to explain, and never needed to.

After her husband's murder, La Carconte's sister has to decide what, if anything, she owes to his memory.

Before he commanded the most feared bandits outside Rome, a shepherd boy made one small, fateful decision about a stranger's lost lamb.