Bound to the Fae King
A Bargain with a God, Immortal Enemy Fae RomantasyBy Aurelia Thorne
Length8h 17m
About this audiobook
The healer's daughter is sent to beg, because the village has worked out that her life is the cheapest thing it currently owns.
Orlaith MacBride scrapes the last of the feverfew into her apron pocket and steps out of her father's cottage into a grey-purple dusk smelling of woodsmoke and somebody's recent bloodletting. The thorn border at the edge of Thornhaven hums like a harp string left too long to vibrate.
She has spent her entire life learning not to touch it. Tonight they send her through it.
Her father has been dying for eight hundred and ninety-seven days. She has counted every one. Every soul in Thornhaven knew it was not inevitable. Every soul except her.
Tadhg Byrne has not needed anything from a mortal in a very long time. He is owed a debt by every living thing inside that border and he collects in the only currency that has ever held here: bargains, struck in blood, honoured precisely to the letter and never one syllable beyond it.
He expects a frightened girl. He gets a healer who reads the terms before she signs them.
What follows is a bargain neither can break. A bloodstorm that traps them in the same cave. A herb exchange conducted like a negotiation between hostile states. An apology delivered in the rain by somebody who has never previously needed to make one. A test at the Thorn Fortress, a kiss in the dust, and an oath sworn at the exact midpoint of everything, when it is much too late to pretend either of them is still merely transacting.
Then the blight mark begins to answer the ground, and Orlaith understands what she has actually agreed to.
*Tadhg lied to me. He hurt me. He let me believe my father's death was inevitable when—*
She does not finish the sentence, because the messenger arrives first, voice ragged: *The Summer Court has broken the agreement. The human's father was taken from the cottage five minutes ago.*
There is a spy in the fortress and a poisoned cup already poured.
Thornhaven will want to know what she gave away. It will not want to know what he did.
And a fae king's word, honoured exactly, has never once meant mercy.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Thorns That Bind
3Chapter 2 - The Bargain in Blood
4Chapter 3 - The Bloodstorm and the Cave
5Chapter 4 - The Healer’s Debt
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6Chapter 5 - The Temporary Truce
7Chapter 6 - The Cloak and the Cold
8Chapter 7 - The Herb Exchange
9Chapter 8 - The Apology in the Rain
10Chapter 9 - The Nightmare’s Hand
11Chapter 10 - The Thorn Fortress Test
12Chapter 11 - The Kiss in the Dust
13Chapter 12 - The Midpoint Oath
14Chapter 13 - The Spy’s Capture
15Chapter 14 - The Poisoned Cup
16Chapter 15 - The Truth of the Stone
17Chapter 16 - The Order to Leave
18Chapter 17 - The Wound Resurfaces
19Chapter 18 - The Heart of the Thornwood
20Chapter 19 - The Return to Fionn
21Chapter 20 - The Sister’s Ambush
22Chapter 21 - The Debt That Remains
23Chapter 22 - The Thorn-Gate Parley
24Chapter 23 - The Cage and the Tent
25Chapter 24 - The Fall of Sorcha
26Chapter 25 - The Crown’s Weight
27Chapter 26 - The Thornwood Reborn
28Epilogue
29The End
30About the Author
31Also by Aurelia Thorne
32Acknowledgements
33A Note from the Author
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