The Rose Bargain

The Rose Bargain

Author: Sasha Peyton Smith Listening Length: 10h 30m

London, 1848—For four hundred years, England has been under the control of an immortal fae queen who tricked her way onto the throne. To maintain an illusion of benevolence, Queen Mor grants each of her subjects one opportunity to bargain for their deepest desire. As Ivy Benton prepares to make her debut, she knows th...

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The room erupts.

There is a chorus of gasping and shouting as everyone struggles to contain themselves.

Olive Lisonbee’s mother doesn’t manage to catch her when she falls this time, and her head bounces off the toe of my boot as she collapses to the floor, unconscious.

Bram is only eighteen, young for a prince to take a wife. No one saw this coming.