The Cruel Prince Audiobook (Free)

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By #1 NY Occasions bestselling author Holly Black, the first book in a sensational new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue.

Of course I want to end up like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is a lot more beautiful compared to the rest. I hate him a lot more than all the others. I hate him a lot that sometimes once i look at him, I could hardly breathe.

Jude was seven years about The Cruel Prince aged when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous Large Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise human beings. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest boy of the High King.

To win a place at the Courtroom, she must defy him–and encounter the consequences.

In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, finding her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil battle threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her lifestyle in a harmful alliance to save lots of her sisters, and Faerie itself.