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What the Ward Takes

Diana Talbot · A dark academia horror novel of transferred wounds, haunted halls, and the price of mercy

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About this book

At 11:13 p.m., every wound they tend disappears—and opens on the person who tried to help.

Scholarship student Mitchell Brown arrives at a summer academy housed in a converted asylum and discovers that treating an injury inside its oldest walls transfers the wound to the caregiver. When privileged students turn the miracle into a market and his roommate becomes a vessel for the dead superintendent, Mitchell must end the ward without making himself 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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