Lisavet is quickly taken with Marion, and Marion finds herself quickly falling for her new mistress. Marion finds herself indentured to Lisavet, the Countess of the House of Hunger. When she happens upon an advert for a bloodmaid she decides to apply for the position – a life of luxury in exchange for the noble lords of the north drinking her blood. She hates her job as a maid and struggles to make ends meet with her sick brother living at home. This dark horror story follows a young woman named Marion, who lives in the slums of Prane. The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson was one of my favourite reads of 2021 so I was incredibly excited for her newest release, House of Hunger. She’ll need to learn the rules of her new home – and fast – or its halls will soon become her grave. But when her fellow bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. Lisavet is magnetic, charismatic, seductive – and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. And she takes a special interest in Marion. Loved and feared in equal measure, she presides over this hedonistic court.

There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery – and there, at the centre of it all is her.

In a matter of days, she finds herself at the notorious House of Hunger. Though she knows little about the far north – where wealthy nobles live in luxury and drink the blood of those in their service – Marion applies to the position.

Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a strange advertisement in the newspaper, seeking a ‘bloodmaid’. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation are all she knows. Source: I was gifted a copy of this book for Christmas

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