Trial of Frost

Fae Bound, Book 1

By: Michelle Madow

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Patricia Santomasso

There are only two ways to survive the Winter Court: obey the prince… or outwit him.

Eighteen-year-old Sapphire Hayes was just a small-town bartender with a talent for mixing drinks and avoiding her toxic ex… until the night a silver-eyed stranger kissed her, and everything shattered.

Dragged into a hidden world of deadly beauty and bone-deep frost, Sapphire learns the truth: she’s not human. She’s a fae changeling. And that stranger she just kissed? He’s a fae prince—one who just bound her magic to him.

Prince Riven Draevor is powerful, calculating, untouchable, and willing to do anything to restore his father’s crumbling sanity. Even binding himself with a kiss to a changeling to use her magic. But when the Winter King—Riven’s father—declares Sapphire a Summer Court spy, he sentences her to immediate execution.

Now, Riven needs to buy time to keep Sapphire alive... while appealing to his father's thirst for blood. His solution? Design three deadly trials to break Sapphire's body and soul.

But Sapphire is more than anyone expected. As dangerous new powers awaken inside her, she becomes a threat the court can’t control, and a temptation Riven can’t ignore.

Their connection is forbidden. Their alliance, fragile. And the deeper Sapphire falls into this world of power and bloodshed, the harder it becomes to tell who the real enemy is. Because in the fae realm, love is a weapon. And the only thing more dangerous than losing the trials… is losing her heart.

Trial of Frost is perfect for listeners who devoured the obsessive soul-bond of Fourth Wing, the enemies-to-lovers tension of A Court of Thorns and Roses, and the high-stakes magic of From Blood and Ash. If you’ve ever wanted to be claimed by a fae prince or seduced by a vampire in a palace of shadows, then start listening today and find out why thousands are calling the Fae Bound series their latest romantasy obsession.

©2025 Michelle Madow (P)2025 Michelle Madow

Go get the Fae Bound series

this is just a re-release of the Fae Bound and very disappointing when i thought I couldn't hear the next book in series. plus skip the male perspective first....it almost completely turned me off the book to go from just met to however long had passed and they finally get intimate.... no build up to have feelings for the characters yet. completely unlike Madow's other books. Worth listening to though and Im glad I stuck with it.

Great storyline

Patricia Santamasso as a narrator almost ruined the audio book if it wasn't for the storyline that kept me wanting to hear more. Hopefully book 2 will find a different female narrator.