Can’t-Wait Wednesday: House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Tressa @ Wishful Endings where bloggers share which upcoming releases they’re most looking forward to. Join us every Wednesday and watch your TBR list multiply.

Can I even express how excited I am for Alexis Henderson’s House of Hunger? I really enjoyed Henderson’s debut, Year of the Witching, and am so stoked for her sophomore novel. House of Hunger is an sapphic adult horror novel about vampires. I am also head over heels in love with the cover for this one. I’ve already preordered this one and am hoping to pick it up this fall. Cover is linked to Goodreads.

Title: House of Hunger
Author: Alexis Henderson
Series: N/A
Pages: 304
Publisher: Ace Books
Publication Date: September 27, 2022

      “WANTED – Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.
      A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.
      Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. 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.
      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. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery–and at the center of it all is her.
      Countess Lisavet, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. She takes a special interest in Marion. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. But when her fellow bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. She’ll need to learn the rules of her new home–and fast–or its halls will soon become her grave.

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