The Cursed Ash Bride
A Cursed Bloodline, Marriage of Alliance RomantasyBy Aurelia Thorne
Length7h 39m
About this audiobook
A house that has been sealed room by room since an execution is not a home. It is a waiting room, and tonight somebody has come to collect.
*They're here.*
Rosalind Blackwood presses her back against the cold plaster of the hallway wall with a candle trembling in her hand. Below, the front door groans open, too heavy for a servant's knock, and a man's voice sharp as broken glass carries up the stairs.
*By order of Lady Morningside. The Blackwood girl is to attend the Veil Festival immediately.*
Her aunt's answering murmur is silk over gravel, placating and useless. Those guards have never waited for pleasantries. They will be up the stairs in thirty seconds.
She blows out the candle. The corridor goes black and she moves by memory: past the grandfather clock stopped at her brother's hour of death, past the portrait of her mother whose eyes follow even in pitch dark. Her fingers find the door to Julian's old room before her eyes adjust.
Dust and dried lavender. The room was ordered sealed after the execution. Rosalind picked the lock two years ago and knows which floorboard creaks, which window sash sticks, and exactly where the thing she is going back for is hidden.
What follows: a debt she never asked for, a carriage ride she did not agree to, a name she cannot escape, a promise made to the dead, blood she never asked to carry, a drink she should not have accepted, and a laugh that costs her everything.
*Yes, you ridiculous man. Yes.*
The court exploded. Aldric did not hear any of it.
Nobody knows what they are walking into. Nobody knows whether the locket will open, or whether the woman holding the other half of the bargain will keep it, and Rosalind has to decide whether an alliance with the family that ruined hers is worth the one thing she swore over her brother's body she would never trade.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length7 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Locket I Couldn’t Open
2Chapter 2 - The Debt I Never Asked For
3Chapter 3 - The Carriage Ride I Didn’t Choose
4Chapter 4 - The Name I Can’t Escape
5Chapter 5 - The Promise I Made to the Dead
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6Chapter 6 - The Blood I Never Asked For
7Chapter 7 - The Drink I Shouldn’t Have Shared
8Chapter 8 - The Laugh That Cost Me Everything
9Chapter 9 - The Dream That Showed Me the Truth
10Chapter 10 - The Arrow That Missed My Heart
11Chapter 11 - The Rooftop That Held Us
12Chapter 12 - The Kiss That Sealed a Vow
13Chapter 13 - The Mask That Slipped
14Chapter 14 - The False Trail That Burned
15Chapter 15 - The Name That Burned the Throne
16Chapter 16 - The Capture I Let Happen
17Chapter 17 - The Lie That Almost Won
18Chapter 18 - The Hand I Refused to Let Go
19Chapter 19 - The Dungeon I Opened for Love
20Chapter 20 - The Renunciation I Offered
21Chapter 21 - The Shadow I Finally Showed
22Chapter 22 - The Dawn After the Ash
23The End
24About the Author
25Also by Aurelia Thorne
26Acknowledgements
27A Note from the Author
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