What the Ward Takes
Diana Talbot · A dark academia YA horror of transferred wounds and costly mercy
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About this book
Inside the asylum’s oldest walls, tending a wound can heal one teenager by injuring the person who stepped in to help.
Scholarship student Mitchell Brown arrives at a summer academy set in a converted asylum, where treating an injury within the oldest walls shifts it onto the caregiver. Privileged students soon turn the phenomenon into a market, while Mitchell’s roommate becomes a vessel for the dead superintendent. To stop the ward claiming another victim, Mitchell must face the cost of mercy and reclaim responsibility for the pain his friends have carried.
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- Diana Talbot
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- 71,137 words
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- 4 hours, 45 minutes
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- English
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