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Toba-Joanne Marianne Belle

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2025

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Her Silk Prison

Submitted to Contest #334

1665.Once upon a time, a young French noblewoman is laying on her bed, reading letters in her crown moulded apartments at Versailles. Being cousin to the king, she was an important political pawn. Someone to strengthen trading ties with Alençon. Famous for their lace which was beautifully gilted with silver, there was such a high demand at Versailles that the king decided to bring someone else in to ensure fair prices and consistent delivery: Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who had recently been made Comptroller-General of Finances, and planned to br...

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The Disobedient Debutante and The Daring Duke

Submitted to Contest #330

She rushed into the garden, away from the stifled ball and the fluttering of fans and all the mamas trying to match their daughters to dreary, wealthy lords and emerging gentlemen trying to look put together, her lady's maid in tow. She'd escaped. Now was her only chance to be happy, and she knew she would never get this chance again if she married him. She'd become a bored duchess, hosting dinner parties and enter her bedchambers every night knowing her husband would be constantly unfaithful, constantly cold, constantly distant, and cruel, ...

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