Length18h 30m
About this audiobook
In Caldris, Arielle Vessane finally has a chance to understand her extraordinary magic. But the city’s grand colleges are full of people who want a say in how she uses it.
As she fights to free the people sustaining the ancient wards, a powerful patron offers answers, training, and a dangerous vision of reform. Family secrets force her to question her past, while the power to make others yield proves harder to resist than she expected.
As her bond with Caelan strains, her attraction to Lucien Vale becomes impossible to ignore. Yet the mage who understands her hunger for more has ambitions that may put them on opposite sides.
To claim her place in this world, Arielle must decide which compromises she can live with—and which would cost her the person she wants to be.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Romance
Length18 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue — Six Months, In My Own Hand
2Chapter 1 — A City That Expects You
3Chapter 2 — The Woman Who Knows the Way
4Chapter 3 — What Was Put There
5Chapter 4 — The First Opening
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6Chapter 5 — Stop Part 1
7Chapter 5 — Stop Part 2
8Chapter 6 — His Own Account
9Chapter 7 — Neither of Us Waiting
10Chapter 8 — The Parts He Does Not Joke About
11Chapter 9 — Her Father's Name Part 1
12Chapter 9 — Her Father's Name Part 2
13Chapter 10 — The Son He Chose
14Chapter 11 — Everything You Called Care Part 1
15Chapter 11 — Everything You Called Care Part 2
16Chapter 12 — A Place Beside Him
17Interlude — The Letter She Kept
18Chapter 13 — Because She Could
19Chapter 14 — What a Patron Can Promise
20Chapter 15 — The Slippers Beside the Bed
21Chapter 16 — What Freedom Requires
22Chapter 17 — When They Yield
23Chapter 18 — The Price of Being Invited
24Chapter 19 — Everything Beneath the Chandeliers
25Chapter 20 — An Unfinished Argument
26Chapter 21 — One Silver, Owing
27Chapter 22 — The Day She Was Supposed to Leave
28Chapter 23 — A Door She Was Not Given
29Chapter 24 — Once Was Easier to Explain
30Chapter 25 — The Road Above the Junction
31Chapter 26 — The People He Would Keep
32Chapter 27 — The Debt He Cannot Pay for Someone Else
33Chapter 28 — A Smaller Circle
34Chapter 29 — A Good Enough Reason
35Chapter 30 — The Vote That Costs Her
36Chapter 31 — What She Will Not Lend Him
37Chapter 32 — The Service He Chooses
38Chapter 33 — A Promise Made Practical
39Chapter 34 — Who Gets to Decide
40Chapter 35 — Neither Will Yield
41Chapter 36 — The Way Back
42Chapter 37 — The Answer in the Machinery
43Chapter 38 — The Route They Close
44Chapter 39 — The Lines She Cuts
45Chapter 40 — What Still Has to Be Done
46Epilogue — Tomorrow, Beside Her
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