02295cam a2200325 i 4500 607080528 TxAuBib 20221013120000.0 220330s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022014354 9780593438466 hbk. 0593438469 hbk. (OCoLC)1292032142 TxAuBib rda Henderson, Alexis, author House of hunger. House of hunger / Alexis Henderson. New York : Ace, [2022] 290 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Jacket. "WANTED: Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply. A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. Despite longing to leave the city and its miseries, she has no real hope of escape until the day she spots a peculiar listing in the newspaper seeking a bloodmaid. 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. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery-and at the center of it all is her. Countess Lisavet, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when her fellow bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She'll need to learn the rules of her new home-and fast-or its halls will soon become her grave"-- Provided by publisher. 20221013. Nobility Fiction. Women household employees Fiction. Vampires Fiction. Vampire fiction. Horror fiction.