The Gale and the Root
A Tale of Windswept Magic and Ancient BondsBy Selene Thorne
Length10h 8m
About this audiobook
Come visit Aureth, a world once held together by a living lattice of magic—where every bond of love, loyalty, or friendship shaped the power of the realms themselves. Harmony has shattered, six rival realms stand divided, their magic fractured, their histories rewritten, and their people starved for connection.
The Bonded Realms Saga begins at the moment this ancient Bond stirs again—awakening forbidden soulmates whose love could either heal a broken world or ignite a war that consumes it.
The first book of this six-book saga, The Gale and the Root, launches a sweeping elemental romance where an Air-born analyst and an Earth-bound guardian collide at the edge of a dying valley.
As political doctrines fracture and the land itself begins to break, Aerys and Brynn are forced into an uneasy partnership that becomes far more intimate—and far more dangerous—than expects. Their choice to stay, together or apart, will determine whether the valley survives or shatters.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length10 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2322. Containment Wrapped in Procedure
21. Fault
2423. Named
32. Alignment
2524. Under Load
43. Awakening
2625. Exposure
54. Extraction
2726. Friction Lines
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65. Containment
2827. The Bent Line
76. Pressure Lines
2928. The Cost of Being Seen
87. Border Ground
3029. Holding without Permission
98. Containment Failure
3130. Alignment Under Observation
109. Witnesses
3231. Conditions of Tolerance
1110. The Cost of Standing
3332. Thresholds
1211. Witness Under Pressure
3433. Precedent
1312. Marked for Review
3534. Bearing Capacity
1413. Under Calibration
3635. Variance Threshold
1514. Baseline Awareness
3736. Named Consequence
1615. What the Ground Carries
3837. The Weight of Record
1716. Interpretive Authority
3938. Residual Lift
1817. The Cost of Visibility
4039. The One-Window Rule
1918. There Is Sequence
4140. When Absence Speaks
2019. When Silence Fails
4241. The Weight We Share
2120. When Sequence Breaks
43Chapter 43
2221. The Weight of Record
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