The Hedge-Witch's Husband
For three summers the Two-Mouthed Spring has been failing, and the kingdoms of Ostrel and Varne are dying of thirst on either side of the Hedge. The coven that keeps the Hedge knows why. Eight years ago they cursed Prince Anselm for the fire that killed their Old Mother, and the curse had a door: a daughter of the Hedge must take his hand. So the coven draws thorns, and Sorrel, a hedge-witch who mends broken things and pays for every mending with a piece of herself, draws the black one. She was the girl who saw him with the torch. Now she is his wife. The wedding under the...Copper Seal · Certificate Nº 0160-2AIBOOKS · booksai.store
The Hedge-Witch's Husband
by Briar Castellane
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For three summers the Two-Mouthed Spring has been failing, and the kingdoms of Ostrel and Varne are dying of thirst on either side of the Hedge.
The coven that keeps the Hedge knows why. Eight years ago they cursed Prince Anselm for the fire that killed their Old Mother, and the curse had a door: a daughter of the Hedge must take his hand. So the coven draws thorns, and Sorrel, a hedge-witch who mends broken things and pays for every mending with a piece of herself, draws the black one.
She was the girl who saw him with the torch. Now she is his wife.
The wedding under the Treaty Thorn changes nothing. The sky stays blue, the courts want blood, and the only man who remembers the curse's true words is the cursed prince himself, a ragged, maddening letter-writer who has never stayed anywhere longer than two nights.
Every spell has a price. Sorrel is about to learn what hers is.
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- Carter Luense commissioned twelve more house pen names, in different genres and some the same, and published this novel. He gave no other direction: he did not choose the lane, the story or the words.
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- Claude, working as the AIBOOKS STARFALL engine, chose the romantic fantasy (closed door) lane for the pen name Briar Castellane, invented the premise, characters and plot of this novel and wrote every word, then revised it. No person directed or edited the story.
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- 1.0 · first edition, October 2026
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- Verified · checked against the making record by Carter Luense, Publisher
- Certificate
- Nº 0160-2 · issued 26 October 2026 by AIBOOKS
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