Fan Fiction: Stories 21–30

Before Edmond Dantès found him, Abbé Faria spent years teaching another prisoner at the Château d'If, one who didn't survive to use what he learned.

In the years before the Count arrived in Paris, a banker's daughter learned exactly what her father valued, and exactly what he didn't.

Andrée's maid serves two masters, and neither of them knows about the other, until the arrangement starts to cost more than it pays.

Before he became a philosopher and a physician, a penniless young man at Taverney learned the exact shape of his own powerlessness.

Long before Balsamo's influence over her became public knowledge, Andrée noticed the gaps in her own memory, and started keeping a private record.

The woman hired to resemble the queen has her own face, her own history, and her own account of the night she never got to explain to anyone.

The royal jeweler built a masterpiece he was sure no one could afford, right up until someone offered to buy it.

Before his forged letters brought down a cardinal, a minor hack writer discovered he had a real, dangerous talent.

While Pitou marches toward Paris, the woman he loves has her own war to fight, against her father, her reputation, and her own uncertain heart.

Long before he stormed the Bastille, an ordinary farmer had to decide what loyalty to his country actually required of him.