Briar Gate Bargain
A Fae Romantasy

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
Seven nights. Three rules. One sister who will not live to see the dark of the moon.

Wren Ashgrove has buried fourteen neighbors and tried every remedy a village healer knows. When the grey sickness reaches her nine-year-old sister, Linnet, Wren does the one thing her mother forbade: she walks through the Briar Gate and bargains with Lord Caelan Thornwick, the fae lord everyone in Hollin Ford blames for the fade.

His price is seven nights of service in a court of bramble and ticking lanterns. His fine print is stranger. He may never lie to her. She may never say thank you or I am sorry. And each night the court takes something from her that she must choose to give: the taste of honey, the sound of her own laugh, a memory she thinks she is better off without.

Wren hates owing. Caelan cannot deceive her, only refuse to answer, and he is infuriatingly exact. Every night she learns a little more about the lanterns that tick like hearts, the courtiers fading to glass, and the hours someone is stealing from a sleeping village. Every dawn she walks home with one thorn fewer on her wrist and one night less to save a child.

Somewhere inside his court is a betrayer. And on the seventh night, under a moon gone dark, Wren will have to make a choice that no clause in the bargain can make for her.

For listeners who love slow-burn enemies to lovers, clever rules with teeth, and a heroine who fights with questions instead of swords. Sensual, closed-door romance.

Briar Gate Bargain is a standalone fae romantasy.