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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: — The Key and the Warning
Chapter 3: — A Scholar Meets a Siren
Chapter 4: — Don’t Look
Chapter 5: — The House of Glass and the Gallery of Beasts
Chapter 6: — Domus Somnia Opens Its Eye
Chapter 7: — The Otherworld’s Price
Chapter 8: — The Glass Casket
Chapter 9: — A Name Returned
Chapter 10: — Once Upon a Time, They Lived
Description
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride follows a historian and folklore scholar who is swept into a whirlwind romance with Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada, an heiress who lives by the logic of fairy tales: rituals, rules, and the terrible consequences of breaking a vow. Their marriage is built on enchantment and a single boundary—he must never pry into her secrets.
When Indigo’s estranged aunt, Hippolyta (Tati), is dying, the couple returns to Indigo’s childhood estate, Domus Somnia—the House of Dreams—where the architecture seems alive and the past feels physically present. There, the narrator encounters the name “Azure,” a vanished girl tied to Indigo’s youth, and begins to experience invasive memories and supernatural distortions that lure him toward betrayal. As the alternating perspectives reveal what happened inside Indigo’s private mythology, the story becomes a gothic horror of devotion, possession, and the price of believing a beautiful lie.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who love gothic, fairy-tale-infused horror with psychological dread and slow-burning reveals.
- Fans of stories about obsessive love, secrets in marriage, and haunted houses that feel sentient.
- Readers who enjoy dual timelines/dual narrators where mythic imagery masks a brutal real-world truth.