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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — The Horse That Shouldn’t Rise
Chapter 3: — The Priest Exalted’s Offer
Chapter 4: — Masks, Foxglove, and a Prince Who Watches
Chapter 5: — The Undead Horse and the First Crack in the Lie
Chapter 6: — The Vault Corpse Speaks and the Bodies Vanish
Chapter 7: — Seventy-Five and the Dock Trail
Chapter 8: — The Door of Mortem
Chapter 9: — Eclipse: Blood and the Return of Power
Chapter 10: — The New King, The New Priest, The Same Shadow
Description
The Foxglove King follows Lore, a hardened young woman from Dellaire’s harbor slums who hides an impossible secret: she can channel Mortem—death magic—and even pull bodies back from the edge. When a contraband drop explodes into chaos and she reanimates a dying horse in public, Lore is seized by the Church’s elite Presque Mort and presented to the Sainted King.
Instead of burning her for heresy, the King and Priest Exalted conscript Lore into the Citadel. Her new “job” is twofold: raise victims from mysteriously dead border villages to learn how they died, and spy on the Sun Prince, Bastian—suspected of colluding with the Kirythean Empire. But Lore’s presence awakens deeper forces: hidden corpses, forbidden rituals, and a prophecy entangling Lore, Bastian, and a one-eyed monk-duke, Gabriel. As an eclipse approaches, loyalties fracture and death itself becomes a tool—one someone intends to wield.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who love dark fantasy with court intrigue, religious conspiracies, and morally gray power plays.
- Fans of necromancy and “power with a price” magic systems—especially stories where magic is political leverage.
- Readers who enjoy tense character triangles (trust, betrayal, attraction) without the plot ever losing momentum.