the year of the witching by alexis henderson

She’ll need to learn the rules of her new home-and fast-or its halls will soon become her grave. But when her fellow bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night, Marion is thrust into a vicious game of cat and mouse. Lisavet is magnetic, and Marion is eager to please her new mistress. There, Marion is swept into a world of dark debauchery-and at the center of it all is her.Ĭountess Lisavet, who presides over this hedonistic court, is loved and feared in equal measure. The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson 4.4 (29) Hardcover 26.00 Hardcover 26.00 Paperback 14.99 eBook 7.99 Audiobook 0. In a matter of days, she finds herself the newest bloodmaid at the notorious House of Hunger.

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. 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. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation is all she knows. I know there is supposed to be a sequel and Henderson has talked at length about the struggles they have been having, but honestly Year of the Witching read like a self contained story.

'The Year of the Witching is a dark wood ready to swallow you whole with its tense stakes and. I really enjoyed the fact that Alexis Henderson wasn't afraid to take the story in the direction it needed to go and the lines Henderson was willing to cross. She grew up in one of Americas most haunted cities, Savannah, Georgia, which instilled in her a life-long love of ghost stories. Girls of weak will need not apply.Ī 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. Alexis Henderson is a speculative fiction writer with a penchant for dark fantasy, witchcraft, and cosmic horror.

Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures.

The year of the witching by alexis henderson