Hunted to the Fae Court
A Bargain with a God RomantasyBy Aurelia Thorne
Length8h 2m
About this audiobook
Rosalind Harlow presses a folded cloth against an Ash prisoner's side and counts to ten, willing her left hand to hold still. The tremor starts in her wrist, travels through her fingers, and ends in the cloth's edge fluttering like a moth wing.
She is an Ivy Court healer. He is the enemy. That is how this is supposed to work.
Then she sees the mark on his wrist.
Rosalind's brother Brannon has been turning to stone since the morning his hand stopped halfway to the butter dish and his fingers went grey. She has spent the three months since tearing through the Ivy Court's archives, bribing clerks, stealing into locked rooms, hunting a Vance forge-seal her own court confiscated after a border skirmish five years ago. *"The cure Brannon needed. Right here, on the wrist of a man who would rather die than help her."*
Sebastian Vance was twelve when Ivy raiders burned his family's forge. He hid in the catacombs and listened. He has no reason on this island to hand an Ivy healer anything at all.
So they do the only thing that will hold. *"The Rite of Cantle is the only way two fae from opposite courts can work together without one of us eventually betraying the other."* Blood mixing. Ash leaves and ivy roots. A mark on the palm that neither of them can take off, and that neither of them can explain to their own people.
It hands Lady Winifred Vale exactly what she needs. Rosalind has been trying to earn that woman's approval for seven years, and Winifred has been waiting just as long for something she can say out loud in front of the Curative Circle.
And none of it touches the older bargain. Before any of this, a dying elder pressed a single pressed ash leaf into a boy's bloody palm in a forge that had been cold for three days, and told him what the fire would charge him. The prophecy does not name a man. It names a bloodline. And every time that blood truly loves somebody, the fire comes for the person they love most.
An enemies-to-lovers fae romantasy of two warring courts, a petrifying curse, a rite that cannot be undone, and two people who each have a very good reason to betray the other. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
4Chapter 2 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
5Chapter 3 - The Bond That Burns
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6Chapter 4 - The Cost of Trust
7Chapter 5 - The Rival’s Game
8Chapter 6 - The Fever’s Truth
9Chapter 7 - The Ashen Pact
10Chapter 8 - The Weeping Knot
11Chapter 9 - The Forge-Seal
12Chapter 10 - The First Kiss
13Chapter 11 - The Ivy Decay
14Chapter 12 - The Festival of Cinders
15Chapter 13 - The Secret of the Scar
16Chapter 14 - The Stone Heart
17Chapter 15 - The Circle Breaks
18Chapter 16 - The Siege
19Chapter 17 - The Rite of Cantle
20Chapter 18 - The Betrayal’s Price
21Chapter 19 - The Drowning Vow
22Chapter 20 - The Last Spell
23Chapter 21 - The Black Moment’s Curse
24Chapter 22 - The Grand Gesture of Ashes
25Chapter 23 - The Cantle’s Promise
26Chapter 24 - The Door We Open Together
27Epilogue
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Aurelia Thorne
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
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