Blood Cycles - The Drinking Age

Ciri has one week left before her twenty‑first birthday, and one week left to save herself.

Her rare blood condition is accelerating. Treatments are failing. Violent episodes strike without warning. If she doesn't find a cure before her birthday... she fears the monster she'll become!

When the state abruptly shuts down her orphanage, Ciri is forced back into the cold, unforgiving home of a benefactor whose cruelty shaped her childhood nightmares. Just surviving the move feels impossible. That is, until Joshua Duncan, a ghost from her past, steps back into her life with a tantalizing claim: her condition may not be a death sentence. There may be a way to break the cycle!

As Ciri races to uncover the truth buried in her own history, she stumbles into secrets that challenge everything she believes about her illness, her identity, and the people who controlled her life. Every clue brings new danger. Every discovery tightens the trap. And every hour brings her closer to the final stage of her transformation.

Her birthday is coming.
The clock is ticking.
And the monster inside is clawing to get out!