The Night Court's Bride
A Forbidden Magic RomantasyBy Elowen Ashe
Length8h 49m
About this audiobook
Eight riders come down through the defile in a blizzard, and one of them is carrying the only thing in three kingdoms that might keep her brother breathing.
She read about the Sunstone in a crumbling folio wedged between a treatise on frost-blight and a recipe for pickled herring. The illustration showed a shard of amber the size of a child's fist, glowing from within like captured sunlight. The text claimed it could cure any affliction born of imbalance, which means the Curse of Unravelling, which is imbalance made flesh, which means Marek.
The blizzard has been blowing for three hours. Lenora presses flat against a granite outcrop with snow crusting the silver in her hair and watches the patrol ride below. Dark cloaks snapping in the wind like raven wings. A leather satchel strapped across the flank of the lead horse.
The boy stopped breathing at midnight. She knows because she was counting. She had counted every breath for three days, because counting gave her something to do besides watching the blue-black veins crawl up his throat.
She takes the satchel. She is caught with it inside four minutes, which she had accounted for, and she is not killed, which she had not.
What follows: an artefact she could not keep, the price of neutral ground, the trail of the snowblood, a cave full of wounded things, the taste of trust, a shadow within, a court of frost, and the price of blood paid by somebody who never agreed to it.
Rylan is the one who decides not to hang her, and neither of them can explain that decision to anybody, including each other, for a very long time.
*They'll find this road too.*
The traitor. The one who sent word. The one who watched them kiss and said nothing.
Rylan will hand over the stone, the court and the crown. Whoever in that court decides a dying boy is a negotiating position will find out exactly what a man is capable of when the thing he wants is finally standing in front of him.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Artifact I Couldn’t Keep
4Chapter 2 - The Price of Neutral Ground
5Chapter 3 - The Trail of the Snowbloom
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6Chapter 4 - The Cave of Wounded Things
7Chapter 5 - The Taste of Trust
8Chapter 6 - The Shadow Within
9Chapter 7 - The Court of Frost
10Chapter 8 - The Price of Blood
11Chapter 9 - The Ritual of Unravelling
12Chapter 10 - The Midnight Proposal
13Chapter 11 - The Shadow in the Glass
14Chapter 12 - The Diary of a Dead Man
15Chapter 13 - The Veil Lifts
16Chapter 14 - The Prison of Lies
17Chapter 15 - The Fortress of Frozen Tears
18Chapter 16 - The Crystal’s Secret
19Chapter 17 - The Weight of a Crown
20Chapter 18 - The Altar of Rain
21Chapter 19 - The Poison in the Dream
22Chapter 20 - The Road to Ember
23Chapter 21 - The Throne of Ash
24Chapter 22 - The Memory of His Touch
25Chapter 23 - The Prison of Embers
26Chapter 24 - The Ash Sea Crossing
27Chapter 25 - The Dawn of Two Courts
28Chapter 26 - The Ice of Vows
29Epilogue
30About the Author
31The End
32About the Author
33Also by Elowen Ashe
34Acknowledgements
35A Note from the Author
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