diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index c5dd6a0..65eab37 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 Revision history for pmarkdown and the Markdown::Perl module.
 
+1.08 - ?
+
+ - Add a new yaml_metadata hook to receive the parsed YAML.
+
 1.07 - 2024-05-25
 
  - Allow to specify a link content through the resolve_link_ref hook.
diff --git a/lib/Markdown/Perl.pm b/lib/Markdown/Perl.pm
index cb8d777..1722666 100644
--- a/lib/Markdown/Perl.pm
+++ b/lib/Markdown/Perl.pm
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ sub set_mode {
   return;
 }
 
-Readonly::Array my @VALID_HOOKS => qw(resolve_link_ref);
+Readonly::Array my @VALID_HOOKS => qw(resolve_link_ref yaml_metadata);
 
 sub set_hooks {
   my ($this, %hooks) = &_get_this_and_args;  ## no critic (ProhibitAmpersandSigils)
@@ -324,6 +324,13 @@ optionally a C<title> key containing the title of the key. The hash-ref can also
 contain a C<content> key, in which case its value should be a span of HTML which
 will replace whatever would have been used for the link content.
 
+=item *
+
+C<yaml_metadata>: this hook will trigger if there is valid (!) YAML metadata in 
+the file and will give you a hashref as an argument. If the hook throws a die(),
+the Markdown parsing will stop as the die() needs to be handled by your code. 
+This allows for conditional parsing based on values in the metadata section.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 AUTHOR
diff --git a/lib/Markdown/Perl/BlockParser.pm b/lib/Markdown/Perl/BlockParser.pm
index f72de83..7374ad5 100644
--- a/lib/Markdown/Perl/BlockParser.pm
+++ b/lib/Markdown/Perl/BlockParser.pm
@@ -137,7 +137,6 @@ sub process {
   # Done at a later stage, as escaped characters don’t have their Markdown
   # meaning, we need a way to represent that.
 
-  # Note: for now, nothing is done with the extracted metadata.
   $this->_parse_yaml_metadata() if $this->get_parse_file_metadata eq 'yaml';
 
   while (defined (my $l = $this->next_line())) {
@@ -372,11 +371,14 @@ sub _parse_yaml_metadata {
     my $metadata = eval { YAML::Tiny->read_string($+{YAML}) };
     if ($EVAL_ERROR) {
       pos($this->{md}) = 0;
-      return;
+      carp 'YAML Metadata (Markdown frontmatter) is invalid.';
+      return 1;
+    }
+    if(exists($this->{pmarkdown}{hooks}{yaml_metadata})) {
+      $this->{pmarkdown}{hooks}{yaml_metadata}->($metadata->[0]);
     }
   }
-
-  return;
+  return 1;
 }
 
 # https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#atx-headings
diff --git a/lib/Markdown/Perl/Options.pm b/lib/Markdown/Perl/Options.pm
index 127c771..bde11c4 100644
--- a/lib/Markdown/Perl/Options.pm
+++ b/lib/Markdown/Perl/Options.pm
@@ -181,9 +181,8 @@ sub _word_list {
 =head3 B<parse_file_metadata> I<(enum, default: yaml)>
 
 This option controls whether the parser accepts optional metadata at the
-beginning of the file. Currently, it does nothing with these metadata, even when
-they are accepted. In the future they might be used to build complete HTML file
-instead of just fragment.
+beginning of the file. The module does nothing with the metadata itself but you
+can configure a hook to intercept the YAML.
 
 The possible values are:
 
diff --git a/t/501-hooks-yaml-metadata.t b/t/501-hooks-yaml-metadata.t
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..17c6955
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/501-hooks-yaml-metadata.t
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use utf8;
+
+use Markdown::Perl 'convert', 'set_hooks';
+use Test::More;
+use Test2::Tools::Warnings;
+use Test2::Tools::Exception;
+
+my $p = Markdown::Perl->new();
+my $page = <<EOF;
+---
+name: Mark is down
+draft: false
+number: 42
+---
+# Mark is down!
+
+I repeat: "Mark is down!"
+EOF
+
+my $invalid_page = <<EOF;
+---
+name: Mark is down
+  draft: false
+	number: 42
+---
+# Mark is down!
+
+I repeat: "Mark is down!"
+EOF
+
+# Test 1: Check if we can get a string value
+{
+  sub hook_is_name_mark {
+    my $x = shift;
+    ok(exists($x->{name}) && $x->{name} eq 'Mark is down', "key 'name' was retrieved and validated as being 'Mark is down'");
+  }
+  $p->set_hooks(yaml_metadata => \&hook_is_name_mark);
+  $p->convert($page);
+}
+
+# Test 2: Validate that hook is not called if yaml is invalid
+{
+  my $hook_called = 0;
+  sub hook_called {
+    $hook_called = 1;
+  }
+  $p->set_hooks(yaml_metadata => \&hook_called);
+  ok(!$hook_called, "Hook was not called because metadata was invalid.");
+  $p->convert($invalid_page);
+}
+
+# Test 3: Validate that invalid yaml causes a carp()
+{
+  sub hook {
+  }
+  $p->set_hooks(yaml_metadata => \&hook);
+  like(warning { $p->convert($invalid_page) }, qr/invalid/, "Got expected warning");
+}
+
+# Test 4: What happens if inside the hook we die()
+{
+  sub hook_die {
+    die "last words";
+  }
+  $p->set_hooks(yaml_metadata => \&hook_die);
+  like( dies { $p->convert($page) }, qr/last words/, "The hook correctly died.");
+}
+
+done_testing;