Vashti
A Monster Bait Scottish Historical Romance of the Deer Forest: A Scottish Historical Monster Bait Romance with a Forest-Father HuntBy Elspeth Kelvinside
Length13h 7m
About this audiobook
Every Michaelmas, the north forest takes a bride from the glen. Three hundred years, three hundred girls. This year the lot falls on Vashti Karim's youngest foster sister.
Vashti walks in to make the forest a better offer.
What meets her is Cernach — stag-crowned, half-man, older than the glen — and he does not want a bride. He wants the boundary kept, and the boundary is failing because the glen has forgotten the pact that made it.
She offers a year as warden. He accepts, amused. He teaches her the forest's language, its losses, and the shape of what he gave up to become what he is.
Then the minister decides she's a witch, and the torches come for the trees, and Vashti has to stand between the glen she was raised by and the forest that has kept it alive.
A monster bait Scottish historical romance of old pacts, deep woods, and a warden who chooses the dark on purpose.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length13 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Cast of Characters
10Eight
2Prologue
11Nine
3One
12Ten
4Two
13Eleven
5Three
14Twelve
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6Four
15Thirteen
7Five
16Fourteen
8Six
17Epilogue
9Seven
18About the author
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