The Cat Lady

Susan Ashworth—known in her neighbourhood as the crazy Cat Lady—is a lonely 40-year-old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends, and no hope for a better future. One day, she learns that five strangers will arrive and change everything. But those five—“The Parasites”—are also the most ruthless, deranged, cold-blooded psychopaths the city has ever known. They will stop at nothing to hurt Susan… unless she hurts them first. Susan’s journey spans only a few weeks. It won’t take her around the world or turn her into a hero. She barely trusts anyone and can hardly bring herself to care. She can’t fight and has never fired a gun. Still, she clings to a thin thread of hope: that an elusive reward is waiting for her in the end—something worth trying for, something that could lead her to an unlikely friend, something that could give her life purpose. Her story becomes a roller-coaster between the world of the living and the world of the dead, where survival means facing her greatest weakness: herself.

In The Cat Lady, lonely 40-year-old Susan Ashworth stands on the brink of suicide when a grim new purpose pulls her into a nightmare between life and death. Warned that five violent strangers known as “the Parasites” will change everything, she confronts them—and her own trauma—in a desperate struggle for survival and meaning.