7 Works by oldmadras
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Whispers of a Hightower plot to disinherit Rhaenyra from the throne reach her days before Viserys's death. Otto is taken for questioning, and Rhaenyra arranges a match between Daenys - her eldest child - and Aemond Targaryen to keep the peace. Aemond cannot stomach marrying a Strong bastard, while the Hightowers believe he could become King yet...
The only problem with their plan is that they never expected Aemond to fall in love with his bride.
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First Year at St Andrews by oldmadras
Fandoms: Malory Towers - Enid Blyton, BLYTON Enid - Works
03 May 2026
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Freshly graduated from Malory Towers, eighteen-year-old Darrell Rivers is off to St Andrews with her old classmates Sally Hope, Alicia Johns, and Betty Hill. The girls look forward to four years of studies, sports, and plenty of fun as they face the new adventure of university life.
Note: I have taken certain liberties with the details of the degrees the characters are studying for and their living arrangements at St Andrews. This story is just my headcanon of what Darrell and her friends do after school--please don't mind any discrepancies from actual life at St Andrews! Also, the last Malory Towers book was published in 1951, so I presume the girls attend university from 1952 to 1956.
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- Part 1 of Life After Malory Towers
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It's 1939, and the children of Downton are all grown up. Handsome young George Crawley-the image of his father Matthew-is poised to begin university when World War II breaks out. In an echo of the past, he enlists as an officer in His Majesty's army, while his fiery cousin Sybbie follows in her mother's footsteps and becomes a nurse. Meanwhile, a distant relative of Cora's from Cincinnati-a Jewish girl named Miriam Levinson-is sent to Downton for her safety. George finds himself at risk of losing his heart irrevocably to the new stranger, while Sybbie seems poised on the brink of making an entirely unsuitable match...
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A Rose for Ransom by oldmadras
Fandoms: Outlander (TV), Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon
20 Jun 2025
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Captain William Ransom, Ninth Earl of Ellesmere, is assigned a covert mission by his commanding officer to uncover a rebel spy in the tiny parish of Rosewood, Philadelphia. Posing as William Dunsany, a young immigrant from England, he is taken in by John Rose and his beautiful half-Iroquois daughter, Anna. Meanwhile, he struggles to reconcile himself to the fact that he is not the biological son of the eighth Earl, but is actually a bastard born of an encounter between his mother, Geneva Dunsany, and Jamie Fraser, a known rebel and traitor to the Crown. Surrounded by rebel sympathisers, William must play his cards carefully if he is to uncover the spy... and he must also guard his twice-broken heart if he is to keep himself from falling in love with the enchanting, spirited Anna...
WARNING: There may be a few book spoilers in later chapters.
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Rhaena Targaryen, tired of playing nursemaid to her two younger half-brothers, makes a bold decision-to claim Sheepstealer, the wild dragon that has made a home on the hillside of the Eyrie. Determined to be a dragonrider like her sister Baela and join the war, she rushes headlong towards the beast, and towards freedom.
Meanwhile, Rhaenyra has to contend with the new dragonseeds and ensure they learn the ways of the dragonriders. Addam of Hull-a newly minted dragonlord and bastard son of Corlys Velaryon-proves especially loyal, and she decides to award him by knighting him Ser Addam Velaryon.
When Rhaena returns to Dragonstone atop her new steed, Rhaenyra is both worried and impressed-the girl is far too young and inexperienced for battle, and is still untethered after the loss of her betrothed, Lucerys. Driftmark is still in need of an heir, and when Corlys decides to legitimise Alyn, Addam's brother, and declare him heir to Driftmark, there is nothing to stop Rhaenyra from arranging the betrothal of Rhaena to Addam, now the second son of an old and reputed house, and a suitable match for a princess.
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Alysanne Celtigar-originally intended as a bride for Aemond Targaryen-finds herself wedded to Cregan Stark, the Warden of the North. The blood of Old Valyria is tied to that of the First Men for the first time, and the young couple are perched on a precipice, expected to perform their marital duties as the Lord and Lady of Winterfell.
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He is her escape. She is his salvation. Despite their conflicting emotions, Alicent and Criston just can't stay away from each other. One-shot.