Serpent & Dove
Serpent & Dove • Book 1
by Shelby Mahurin
Narrated by Holter Graham, Saskia Maarleveld
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
A witch and a witch-hunter forced into marriage — Holter Graham and Saskia Maarleveld make the tension feel genuinely unbearable.
- Great if you want: enemies-to-lovers romance with fantasy stakes and slow-burn heat
- Listening experience: addictive and emotionally charged — the dual narration format intensifies it
- Narration: Graham and Maarleveld split POVs cleanly; their chemistry is the real draw
- Skip if: you find forced-proximity tropes predictable or pacing too romance-heavy
About This Audiobook
Serpent and Dove opens in the city of Cesarine, where witches are burned and witch hunters are priests. Lou, a young witch in hiding, makes her living by her wits on the streets — until a botched public incident forces her into a legally binding marriage with Reid Diggory, a hunter sworn to kill everything she is. The enemies-to-lovers premise is built on a genuine ideological conflict rather than simple misunderstanding, and Mahurin honors that by making both characters' convictions real before she begins to dismantle them.
The dual narration by Holter Graham and Saskia Maarleveld gives each protagonist a distinct audio presence, and the contrast between Reid's formal rigidity and Lou's improvisational survival instinct carries the novel's central tension effectively. At just over fourteen hours the audiobook has room to develop the unlikely partnership before the romance takes hold. The Goodreads Choice and debut recognition reflect a genuinely accomplished first novel.