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What the Ward Takes

Diana Talbot · Dark academia horror where every act of care carries a price

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About this book

At a converted asylum, every treated injury vanishes—only to appear on the person who genuinely tried to help.

Mitchell Brown arrives on scholarship at a summer academy operating out of a former asylum. Within the building’s oldest walls, giving aid makes an injury disappear from the patient and surface on the caregiver—a rule privileged students soon turn into a business. As Mitchell’s roommate becomes a vessel for the dead superintendent, Mitchell must shut down the ward without becoming its last victim.

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Author
Diana Talbot
Length
71,137 words
Estimated reading time
4 hours, 45 minutes
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Book language
English

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