Growing up in the slums, Marion has known what it means to survive, to hunger and her desperation leads her to answer an advertisement and travelling to a place she has only heard about. She comes from the south, a place where Bloodmaids are frowned upon, seen as distasteful, but also where the lines between poor and wealthy couldn’t be further apart. Marion was a fantastic POV to read this story from.

She will need to delve into the history of the House of Hunger, and take a true look at the extravagance that surrounds her if she is to make it out alive. A game with only one survivor and where danger lurks behind every door. But something dark is afoot, and when Marion’s fellow Bloodmaid’s start going missing, Marion finds herself enthralled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Lisavet is enticing, magnetic and the more time Marion spends in the House of Hunger the more she wants to please Lisavet, to spend all their time together, and she quickly becomes jealous having to share her with the other Bloodmaid’s. A world filled with luxury, depravity, excess, and she quickly finds herself as the newest Bloodmaid to the Countess Lisavet, the ruler of the House of Hunger and Marion’s new mistress. When she arrives at the House of Hunger she enters a world she never could have envisioned. Her way out of the slums, of service, her way to a better life. When Marion see’s this ad in the newspaper, she knows this is her way out. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. “ WANTED – Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. 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, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery–and at the center of it all is her.Ĭountess Lisavet, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure.

In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid 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 peculiar listing in the newspaper, seeking a bloodmaid. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows.

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