Marion signs a contract to become indentured to the House of Hunger at the conclusion of her service, she will receive a large pension. She pushes him into the fireplace, accidentally fracturing his skull and killing him. Before leaving Prane, Marion fights with her brother about accepting the position. The illness requires her to drink the blood of healthy young women in order to survive. Lisavet suffers from a hereditary illness known as the Hunger. She applies and is accepted to serve in the House of Hunger, a noble house led by Countess Lisavet Bathory. Marion, a house cleaner working in the city of Prane, sees an ad for the position of bloodmaid in a local paper. In the far North, wealthy nobles drink the blood of their servants, known as bloodmaids. The plot follows the life of Marion as she becomes a bloodmaid in the titular House of Hunger. The story is set in a world where nobles feed on the blood of their servants. House of Hunger is a 2022 horror novel by Alexis Henderson. For the 1978 short story collection by Dambudzo Marechera, see House of Hunger.
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