Length8h 48m
About this audiobook
Every hundred years, the Briar king takes a bride.
None has ever come back.
Maren Vale is a thief with a handmaid's apron.
When Princess Elowen cuts off her own hair and begs Maren to take her place, Maren puts on the veil and walks into the thorn wall herselt. She expects a monster. She finds Caelan, a king who has worn a crown of thorns for nine hundred years and is very careful about everything he does not say.
Inside Thornhold, the Briar punishes every lie spoken aloud. For a girl who has lived by lying since she was eleven, it is the most dangerous house in the kingdom. The servants are kind and not quite alive. Nine brides came before her, and the house remembers every one. And something below the castle is waiting for the Hundred Night, less than a month away.
To survive, Maren will have to tell the truth, read a house that listens, and decide what she owes a man who may be the reason no bride ever came home.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 29, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Part One: The Substitute
2Chapter 1: The Girl Who Wore Her Face
3Chapter 2: The Price of a Name
4Chapter 3: The House That Listens
5Chapter 4: What the Ninth Bride Left
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6Chapter 5: The Rules of the Briar
7Chapter 6: The Wall
8Chapter 7: The Ninth Bride
9Part Two: The Court of Thorns
10Chapter 8: A Terrible Kindness
11Chapter 9: The Hollow Ones
12Chapter 10: The Voice at the Servants’ Table
13Chapter 11: The Orchard of Names
14Chapter 12: The Remembrance Supper
15Chapter 13: Ansel and the Eggs
16Chapter 14: Truth Like a Knife
17Chapter 15: The Princess at the Thorns
18Chapter 16: What Cousins Owe
19Chapter 17: Twenty-Seven Spoons
20Part Three: What Sleeps Below
21Chapter 18: Two Hundred and Eleven Steps
22Chapter 19: A Very Good Liar
23Chapter 20: The Dream of Lavender
24Chapter 21: The Guest at the Kitchen Door
25Chapter 22: Nine Hundred Years
26Chapter 23: What Pim Wanted
27Chapter 24: The Rhyme My Mother Sang
28Chapter 25: The Parley
29Chapter 26: The Drowned Chapel
30Chapter 27: The Sour Green Leaf
31Chapter 28: The Return Below
32Chapter 29: The Name and the Door
33Part Four: The Last Bride
34Chapter 30: The Cost of Knowing
35Chapter 31: The Ledgers
36Chapter 32: The Price of Survival
37Chapter 33: The Kindest Lie
38Chapter 34: Nine Doors
39Chapter 35: Ash and Lavender
40Chapter 36: The Assembly of Houses
41Chapter 37: The Northern Valley
42Chapter 38: Mother Gilly’s Drawer
43Chapter 39: The Frost in Midsummer
44Chapter 40: What the Snow Remembers
45Coming Next
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