The Bargain
A Spicy Fae Romantasy (The Bargain Courts Book One)By Lirien Ashbourne
Length10h 8m
About this audiobook
In the four-court fae empire, every alliance has a price — and Sephyra Vale is the coin.
Half-fae, raised on the gentle borderlands of Bloomhaven, Sephyra never expected her magic to matter to anyone outside her grandmother's archive. Then the foundational treaty calls in an eighty-four-year-old debt, and she is bargained to Aurelian Sornen, the High Lord of Sunfire, a cold sovereign of ash and gold who treats their marriage like a clause to be enforced. She arrives at his obsidian court a stranger. She agrees to wear his bargain-mark a captive. She refuses, on every page, to be either.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Romance
Length10 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1: The Line Item
2Chapter 2: The Sovereign’s High Note
3Chapter 3: The Unmarked Tables
4Chapter 4: The Fire-Thorn at Dusk
5Chapter 5: The Throne Hall
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6Chapter 6: The Bargaining Flame
7Chapter 7: The Sovereign’s Study
8Chapter 8: The Cold Signature
9Chapter 9: The Lower Courtyard, Dusk
10Chapter 10: The Archive Annex
11Chapter 11: The Monitoring Stone’s Report
12Chapter 12: The Delegation’s Liaison
13Chapter 13: The Frost-Garden at Midday
14Chapter 14: The War-Council’s General
15Chapter 15: The Sovereign’s Questions
16Chapter 16: The Unexamined Crystal
17Chapter 17: The Corridor Without Monitoring
18Chapter 18: The First Touch
19Chapter 19: The Sovereign’s Touch, Again
20Chapter 20: The Argument in the Courtyard
21Chapter 21: The First Intimacy
22Chapter 22: The Morning After
23Chapter 23: The Midpoint Reckoning
24Chapter 24: The Confrontation
25Chapter 25: The Deepening
26Chapter 26: The Second Intimacy
27Chapter 27: The Investigation Intensifies
28Chapter 28: The True Mate Revealed
29Chapter 29: The Aftermath of Visibility
30Chapter 30: The Sovereign Sees
31Chapter 31: The Sovereign’s Precision
32Chapter 32: The Frost-Garden’s Secret
33Chapter 33: The Bond’s Deepening
34Chapter 34: The Crisis Approaches
35Chapter 35: The Formal Audience
36Chapter 36: The Warning
37Chapter 37: The Confrontation with Vespera
38Chapter 38: The Choice
39Chapter 39: The Bond Consummation
40Chapter 40: The Morning After the Consummation
41Chapter 41: The Sovereign’s Response
42Chapter 42: The Political Landscape Shifts
43Chapter 43: The Crisis Point
44Chapter 44: The Decision
45Chapter 45: The Wound Addressed
46Chapter 46: The Commitment
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