A Bargain Made in Thorns

Complete genre_romantasy Fantasy Romance fae bargain enemies to lovers forbidden romance powerful fmc ♥♥ AI-assisted story

Synopsis

Ashenmarch is walled by the Briar, a living thorn hedge grown from a bargain struck three centuries ago, and Idonea Brackwater is one of the briarwrights licensed to prune it. When her shears bleed a Heartthorn that shouldn't exist, the Thorn Court sends its Debt-Keeper, Ossian Thray, to audit a balance the city has never once been asked to pay — and Ida buys herself forty-one days with a counter-bargain that binds her wrist to his in living thorn. What they find in the Registry of Bargains is a forged page, a tithe paid in Brackwater women, and a debt that was settled two hundred years ago; what they find in each other is the one thing the Ledger cannot price, and only one of them can pay to close the account.

Chapters 6 of 20 chapters free

1. 1 The Bloom That Shouldn't Free
2. 2 The Debt-Keeper Free
3. 3 Forty-One Days Free
4. 4 Thornbound Free
5. 5 Inside the Wall Free
6. 6 The Registry of Bargains Free
7. 7 What the Ring Knows Locked
8. 8 Night Rotation Locked
9. 9 Pitch and Charter Locked
10. 10 Dear Heart Locked
11. 11 The Face in the Wood Locked
12. 12 The Rolls Locked
13. 13 Terms of Collection Locked
14. 14 One Honest Night Locked
15. 15 Thornfall Moved Locked
16. 16 A Closed Account Locked
17. 17 Testimony Locked
18. 18 The Wall at Thornfall Locked
19. 19 The Ledger Balances Locked
20. 20 A Name Freely Given Locked