The Cursed Ash Queen
A Fated Mate, Stolen Crown RomantasyBy Aurelia Thorne
Length8h 18m
About this audiobook
Deveral Cade is a dealmaker, a man who has never given anything away in his life, and the last person on the continent a woman with nothing left to trade should be meeting at midnight.
Morrow Zander presses her palm flat against her brother's forehead and counts the seconds until the heat tells her something she does not want to know.
Rigel's skin burns through her glove. His breath comes in shallow rasps, each one a small battle lost. The wasting curse has painted his cheeks a bruised purple and the yellow in his eyes has deepened since morning, more yolk than white now. She has watched that colour shift across six months, tracking it the way sailors track a tide that only goes out.
*You're not supposed to touch me. You'll catch it.*
*I can't catch a curse, idiot. I'm your sister.*
*Same blood.*
*Same stubborn blood.*
The room smells of camphor and something sour, the particular stink of a body eating itself from the inside. She has got used to it, which is the worst part.
Then the letter arrives in handwriting that is elegant and precise and nothing like her father's frantic scrawl. *I understand your brother is ill. I have something that might help. Meet me at the Hall of Oaths at midnight. Come alone.*
She reads it twice. Hope first, sharp and dangerous as a blade against the ribs. Then the dread, because that man does not give gifts. He makes deals, and she has nothing left.
What follows: the price of a feather, smoke and honey on the tongue, a game of prick and hide, a burn he keeps covered, the shape of a truce, and a nightmare that will not open its hand.
*Promise me you won't leave me alone.*
*I promise.*
*This oath binds you to a woman who will spend the rest of her life waiting for you to betray her.*
*Yes.*
She thinks about him at the bedside, in the hall, in the four seconds before every door she opens. She is not going to stop. Not when the oath is discharged, not when the crown changes hands, not ever.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
3Chapter 2 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
4Chapter 3 - The Price of a Feather
5Chapter 4 - The Taste of Smoke and Honey
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6Chapter 5 - The Game of Prick and Hide
7Chapter 6 - The Burn He Hides
8Chapter 7 - The Shape of a Truce
9Chapter 8 - The Nightmare I Cannot Outrun
10Chapter 9 - The Poison in a Promise
11Chapter 10 - The Ash of My Heart
12Chapter 11 - The First Touch of Fire
13Chapter 12 - The Oath That Cannot Be Unspoken
14Chapter 13 - The Midpoint of Ashes
15Chapter 14 - The Gift of Venom
16Chapter 15 - The Father I Never Knew
17Chapter 16 - The Breaking of Trust
18Chapter 17 - The Shadow of a Sister
19Chapter 18 - The Cure of a Broken Man
20Chapter 19 - The Ash Reborn
21Chapter 20 - The Bog of Shadows
22Chapter 21 - The City of Embers
23Chapter 22 - The Lie that Wins
24Chapter 23 - The Price of a Heart
25Chapter 24 - The Venom of the Mother
26Chapter 25 - The Ash and the Venom
27Chapter 26 - The First Day of Forever
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Aurelia Thorne
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
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