Catharsis [Novel]

Every villain is the HERO of their own story...

Fifteen-year old Catarina Perez wakes up in one of the city’s alleys
covered in blood and lying next to the corpse of a man she has never
met before. And it turns out that isn’t the strangest thing she’s
going to go through this night. Within hours of waking up, her body
begins to develop superhuman abilities that cause her to become faster,
stronger and more agile than any person she’s ever met.

But the use of these new powers brings with them a horrifying
handicap: an uncontrollable desire to feast on the sweet, red nectar
that is the life force of other humans. The more she uses her powers,
the greater her desire to attack people.

With her moral beliefs telling her that suicide is the greater sin,
she tries to make peace with her need to feed on humans as a way of
sustaining herself. Determined to see her affliction as a blessing and
not a curse, Catarina begins to systematically hunt down the city’s drug
dealers.