WHAT THE HOUSES FORGOT
Romantasy (Romance Fantasy)By Betty S Keating
Length3h 6m
About this audiobook
Once a year, at the one event both their houses are bound by treaty to attend, Isbeau Colwrath waits in a doorway for a storm grey coat to appear at the top of the stairs.
She has done this for thirteen years.
House Colwrath and House Aeriven have hated each other since the Sundering, a broken betrothal eighty years buried, the kind of old grudge every child in the valley is raised on before they are old enough to ask what actually happened. Isbeau was raised on it too. She believed every word of it, until she was eleven years old, lost in a hedge maze, and found the Aeriven heir crying under a hedge with no one else in the world who had thought to ask if he was all right.
She has met him there every year since. She has never told a soul.
What Isbeau does not know, what she has never let herself examine too closely, is that the strange warmth that rises in her chest every time she is near him is not simply affection. It is magic, old, patient, and utterly forbidden, the very thing that doomed the two lovers who came before them. And the closer she and Thane grow, the more the valley's oldest, most careful secret begins to stir: a locked case built for two hands and no others, a great aunt erased so completely from the family record that not even her own mother remembers her name, and a Warden whose family has spent eighty years enforcing a law built on a lie.
Now the valley's protective magic is failing. A village is already sick from a blight no one can explain. And the Warden has a solution, one that requires Isbeau and Thane to be bound together before they are ever allowed to fully choose each other, the same cruel, clean fix that cost two people everything, eighty years ago.
Isbeau and Thane have a choice their predecessors were never given: complete an old, unfinished magic, honestly, dangerously, entirely on their own terms, or lose each other the safe way, the sanctioned way, the way that has already broken one family beyond repair.
Some hedges keep growing long after everyone has forgotten why they were planted. Some houses forget the truth for eighty years and call it peace.
WHAT THE HOUSES FORGOT is a lush, slow burn romantasy about the families we inherit, the truths they bury to keep the peace, and the particular courage it takes to choose someone freely, in the open, when everyone who came before you was too frightened to try.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Romance, General Fiction
Length3 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Foreword
2Acknowledgements
3CHAPTER ONE: The Doorway Thing
4CHAPTER TWO: What the Weather Wants
5CHAPTER THREE: The Day They Met
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6CHAPTER FOUR: The Locked Case
7CHAPTER FIVE: The Missing Sister
8CHAPTER SIX: Two Hands
9CHAPTER SEVEN: The Warden’s Interview
10CHAPTER EIGHT: What Lady Corrin Already Knew
11CHAPTER NINE: A Grandmother’s Diary
12CHAPTER TEN: What Neither of Them Stepped Back From
13CHAPTER ELEVEN: What His Father Would Not Deny
14CHAPTER TWELVE: What Her Mother Had Been Told Never to Speak
15CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Woman in the Hills
16CHAPTER FOURTEEN: What Yselde Remembers
17CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Northern Holding
18CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Eighty Years, Undone
19CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Letter Home
20CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The News From Thornfield
21CHAPTER NINETEEN: What the Council Decided
22CHAPTER TWENTY: Beneath the Hedge
23CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: What the Hedge Remembered
24CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: What Grew Back
25CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Hedge in Daylight
26EPILOGUE: What the Hedge Remembers
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