The Broken Shadow Lord
A Forbidden Magic, Immortal Enemy Fae RomantasyBy Vesper Hale
Length7h 37m
About this audiobook
She was supposed to be the instrument, not the accused. Four years of hearing the difference between a truth and a lie for a court that owns her, and all of it in exchange for hours shaved off her brother's sentence.
Grey light bleeds through the slitted window high in Orla's cell and she is already lacing her boots when the guard's key scrapes the lock. She knows what it means before he says a word. The Night of Shifting Masks begins at dusk, and the king always clears his accounts before a celebration.
Her cell holds nothing worth securing. A straw pallet. A chipped basin. A candle stub and the worn leather journal where she keeps Tobin's drawings.
The corridors of Thornhollow twist through the mountain's bones like veins in a fist. Obsidian swallows the torchlight before it can travel three paces and the air tastes of cold stone and the mineral bite of the black lakes in the caverns below. Four years down here, and she still dreams about open sky.
If she tells the truth, a man loses a father. If she lies and the court finds out later, they take her memories: Tobin's face, Tobin's laugh, the drawings pressed into her hands through the bars of a holding cell. They would take her brother's name out of her head and she would forget she ever had a reason to keep going.
In the hall she sees the crack in a shadow that should not have one. And Drennan Ashvale, who wears no mask, not even tonight. Ink-black hair loose past his shoulders, silver at the temples, one eye where there should be two.
*I require your presence at a private audience. You will come with me now.*
What follows: a poisoned chalice, a prisoner in the deep, a shadow healer, a lord who vanished and the reason nobody will say his name, a midnight rendezvous, and a hunt through the caverns below.
*I love your stubbornness and your courage and the way you look at the world like it owes you something.*
The curse is still coiled in his chest at the end of this book. The socket still throbs. None of that changes the arrangement he has privately made with himself, which is that the next person to reach for what is his will not survive the reaching.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length7 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Girl Who Saw Lies
3Chapter 2 - The King’s Offer
4Chapter 3 - The Prisoner in the Deep
5Chapter 4 - A Poisoned Chalice
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6Chapter 5 - The Shadow Healer
7Chapter 6 - The Vanished Lord
8Chapter 7 - The Midnight Rendezvous
9Chapter 8 - The Hunt Below
10Chapter 9 - The Storm Gate
11Chapter 10 - The Traitor’s Bargain
12Chapter 11 - The Kraken’s Keep
13Chapter 12 - The Solstice Storm
14Chapter 13 - The Heartstone’s Price
15Chapter 14 - The Crown of Shards
16Chapter 15 - The Echo Chamber
17Chapter 16 - The Rite Unwoven
18Chapter 17 - The Dying Light
19Chapter 18 - The Prisoner King
20Chapter 19 - The Weight of a Crown
21Chapter 20 - The Crown of Shadows
22Chapter 21 - The Ember’s Touch
23Chapter 22 - The Double Game
24Chapter 23 - The Rescue
25Chapter 24 - The Coming Storm
26The End
27About the Author
28Also by Vesper Hale
29Acknowledgements
30A Note from the Author
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