The Feeding Hour

von Marcy Grey

198 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The dying always go in the cold. Darcy Quinn is the only one on the ward who knows what the cold is.For fifteen years, Darcy has worked the night shift at a Providence hospice, holding the door for strangers on their way out of the world. She is good at it. She is also the only one who can see what waits in the corner of the room at three in the morning: the thin, patient, many-limbed dark that fastens onto the dying and drinks the last light out of them before they are gone.Her grandmother called it minding. Salt across the threshold. Cold iron under the bed. Red thread knotted nine times. For years Darcy kept her head down and let the hungry things feed, because that was the rule - you mind your own, and you never make yourself interesting to the things that eat.Then a thirty-four-year-old crash survivor is wheeled onto her floor: healing, stable, and dying of nothing, with one of them anchored to his chest. And for the first time in her careful life, Darcy decides to fight back.She should have asked why the hospital's most beloved doctor keeps his sickest patients dying right on schedule.Because Victor Calloway has been farming the dead for forty years - shepherding the things that feed, skimming the refined light they leave behind, and selling stolen youth to people rich enough to never grow old. He has run the dead hour like a business since before Darcy was born. And he has just noticed that a tired night nurse with a pocketful of salt is robbing him of his harvest.A total eclipse is coming on Halloween - the one night the veil thins enough for a full harvest. Darcy has until the moon goes dark to learn what her grandmother really left her. Or a good man dies for a rich man's face, and she goes into the dark with him.THE FEEDING HOUR is a folk-horror thriller with a wicked wit and a bone-deep chill - about the tired, unremarkable women who do the work nobody wants, and the monsters who wear a white coat and get thanked for it.Some doors you close with medicine. Some you close with salt. She is going to need both.

• ISBN: 9798192521540
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp