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STONE HEART, FATED MATE
A Gargoyle Fated Mates Romance (Clean EditionBy Dane Jones
Length3h 16m
About this audiobook
She crossed the border expecting to face a monster. She never expected to fall for him instead.
Wren Ashcombe is a Fae healer-diplomat handed over as a hostage-emissary to end thirty years of war with the Gargoyle Wardens. She has a treaty to enforce, a Council counting on her to gather intelligence, and a private grief she has never let herself fully feel: a mentor lost at the border, and a government that has spent eight months refusing to tell her the truth about how.
She expects the Wardens to be exactly what her people raised her to fear. Instead, she is received personally by Kaelan Vorne, King of the Ashfall Wardens, a ruler who shows her the truths his own history and hers have both buried, and who is carrying a secret far heavier than any treaty clause: a curse that is slowly, silently, turning him to stone.
The Wardens believe the curse breaks only one way. Not through love. Through being witnessed, fully and without flinching, by someone who has every reason to look away. Wren has every reason. Thirty years of inherited hatred. A war built on convenient lies. A grief she has spent months turning into anger because anger, unlike grief, felt like something she could use.
But the closer she looks at Kaelan, and at the war she was trained to understand only one way, the less her old certainties hold. Every truth he hands her costs him something. Every truth she uncovers costs her the comfortable version of loyalty she arrived with. And the fated bond growing between them doesn’t make any of it easier. It only makes it impossible to look away.
When a sabotage plot threatens to collapse the fragile peace, and Wren’s own Council recalls her home to face charges of treason, she has to choose: return to the safety of everything she has always known, or stay and fight for a truth, a peace, and a man worth the cost of being wrong about everyone she was taught to fear.
Stone Heart, Fated Mate is a clean, closed-door enemies-to-lovers romance built on forced proximity, a slow burn earned one honest scene at a time, and a fated mates bond that never does the emotional work for either of them. If you love your monster romance sweet instead of spicy, your enemies-to-lovers built on real stakes instead of manufactured misunderstandings, and your happily-ever-afters chosen deliberately rather than handed to you by fate alone, Wren and Kaelan’s story was written for you.
No cliffhanger. No love triangle. A complete, standalone happily ever after, with a curse that breaks only when someone finally dares to keep looking.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Fairy Tales and Folklore, Romance
Length3 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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