The Heart of A King — Volume II - The Man Who Rules
By Alexia Death
Length8h 49m
About this audiobook
The King is away again, and this time there is no clause anywhere on the paper.
Davin has learned to want things. He has learned to hold a kingdom, and to be knocked into the mud at sun-up by his mother-in-law without being told why. What he has not learned is the answer to a question a soldier asks him at four in the morning, at the bottom of a bottle, in an empty courtyard.
You are loyal to something. I can see it from the other side of a room. To whom?
He has no answer. He finds one the next afternoon and gives it honestly, because he said he would — and cannot understand why the man he gives it to goes white to the mouth.
Then a general comes up a hill on foot, in yesterday's coat, to ask him not to go down into the lower town tonight. And will not say why.
A story about legitimacy: who may say a thing, on whose authority, and what becomes of a kingdom when the only people willing to act are the ones with no right to.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy
Length8 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter One — The Outside Face
2Chapter Two — No Clause
3Chapter Three — Stand Still
4Chapter Four — Waiting for the Bells
5Chapter Five — A Point of Fact
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6Chapter Six — In That Order
7Chapter Seven — To Whom
8Chapter Eight — A Cure for Stupidity
9Chapter Nine — Stupid and Brave
10Chapter Ten — A Count of Ten
11Chapter Eleven — Not for the Asking
12Chapter Twelve — The Same Cell
13Chapter Thirteen — The Kitchen Garden
14Chapter Fourteen — A Rope to Throw
15Chapter Fifteen — The Root Cellar
16Chapter Sixteen — We Have Until Autumn
17Chapter Seventeen — Raisins
18Chapter Eighteen — So Am I
19Chapter Nineteen — Presentable
20Chapter Twenty — Enough
21Chapter Twenty-One — Lightning Rods
22Chapter Twenty-Two — The Long Way
23Chapter Twenty-Three — Seven Papers
24Chapter Twenty-Four — A Hazard to the Carpet
25Epilogue — The Glass Case
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