The Woman Who Waited

Originally by Alexandre Dumas

Reimagined from the vantage point of Mercédès

"He returned for vengeance. She had already survived worse."

Edmond Dantès escapes prison and returns as the Count of Monte Cristo, consumed by revenge. But Mercédès — the woman he loved, who married his betrayer — has spent fourteen years in a prison of her own: a loveless marriage, a son she must protect, and the knowledge that the man she loved is either dead or has forgotten her.

Pages

400

Print Price

$24.99

Kindle Price

$9.99

Genre

Historical Literary Fiction

Why This Vantage Point

Monte Cristo has sold 100+ million copies. Mercédès is always reduced to 'the woman who didn't wait.' But she did wait — for years — before making the same pragmatic choice as Charlotte Lucas.

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The Original

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words — Wait and Hope."

— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

The Reimagined — Mercédès's Voice

Wait and hope, he writes. Easy words for a man who returned with a fortune and a plan. I waited too. I waited until waiting became its own kind of death — until the fishermen stopped searching, until his father stopped eating, until the silence where Edmond had been grew so loud I could not breathe. Then Fernand came with his offer, and I did not wait anymore. They will say I betrayed Edmond. But you cannot betray the dead. You can only survive them.

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