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What the Ward Takes

Diana Talbot · A YA gothic horror of haunted wards, transferred wounds and costly mercy

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In the old asylum at 11.13 pm, every wound a teenager tends disappears—only to open on the person who stepped in to help.

Scholarship student Mitchell Brown arrives at a summer academy housed in a converted asylum, where treating an injury inside the oldest walls passes the damage to the caregiver. Privileged pupils turn this grim bargain into a market, while Mitchell’s roommate becomes a vessel for the dead superintendent. To break the haunting, Mitchell must take responsibility without becoming its final 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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