01726cam a2200289 4500 605160975 TxAuBib 20221013120000.0 220304s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022010454 9781250811189 HRD 27.99 125081118X HRD 27.99 TxAuBib Ennes, Hiron. Leech [BOOK] / Hiron Ennes. 1st ed. New York : Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates, 2022. 336 pages ; 22 cm. "In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed. In the frozen north, the Institute's body will discover a competitor for its rung at the top of the evolutionary ladder. A parasite is spreading through the baron's castle, already a dark pit of secrets, lies, violence, and fear. The two will make war on the battlefield of the body. Whichever wins, humanity will lose again.". 20221013. Human body Fiction. Parasites Fiction. Science fiction. Gothic fiction. Horror fiction. Apocalyptic fiction.