Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview
  • Matchsticks

  • A Dark Spirits Fairytale (Dark Spirits Fairytales)
  • By: S.J. Sanders
  • Narrated by: Luca Frost
  • Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Matchsticks

By: S.J. Sanders
Narrated by: Luca Frost
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £11.99

Buy Now for £11.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

Following the Ravening, the world changed for everyone. For Agatha Ward, once a successful interior designer, those changes have been a succession of one miserable year after another wherein she has only barely managed to survive through simple labor. Selling match sticks outside in the snow on solstice night is not her idea of a good way to spend the holiday nor a promising beginning for the new year, but she hopes to make enough to at least buy some fuel for heat and some food.

When a golden stranger steals a pack of matchsticks and leaves behind a box with five gold matches, she is drawn into another world inhabited by monsters. Ruling over them and the northern mountains is a winged king of the north wind, Aquilo. He is dark and cold as winter itself, but as she returns with the flare of each matchstick, she discovers a warm heart and hot glances behind that icy reserve that makes her long for forever. If only she wouldn’t keep returning every night back to that same frigid street. With her matchsticks running out, will she have a chance for happily ever after?

Aquilo has known no warmth or comfort. His fortress is as cold and lonely as he is. With naught but his griffins for company, and the ogres and lupi who serve him, he yearns for any sort of spark to warm him. When a human arrives on his mountain, her presence seems impossible, but no more so than the spark that heats within him at her nearness, yet every night she disappears. He’s certain that another god is toying with him, yet the longer she is there the more he realizes that she is all that he wants. But will he find her in the human world before the brutal harpies snuff out her light forever?

This is a happy-ever-after, reimagined retelling of the fairytale The Matchstick Girl in the Dark Spirits Universe.

©2020 Samantha J. Sanders (P)2021 Samantha J. Sanders
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Ragorou Romances: Boxset 1 cover art
Classified Planet: Turongal cover art
The VaDorok (A Mate Index Alien Romance) cover art
Warriors of Sangrin: Box Set Volume One cover art
Court of Winter cover art
Taken by the Dark Elf King cover art
Desire in His Blood cover art
Of Thorns and Beauty cover art
Claimed by the Dragon King cover art
Court of Tricksters cover art
The Necromancer's Light cover art
The Demon's Possession cover art
The Orc Wife cover art
I Married a Lizardman cover art
Risdaverse Tales cover art
Ensnared cover art

What listeners say about Matchsticks

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    0
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Dark but light fairytale!

Liked it, a fun fairytale for adults. Narrator was good, heart felt and gave the story the fantasy style it needed.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!