What if justice had thorns?
Meet Mary Ann Henry-1998 Miss Nevada, mob informant, and the desert's deadliest secret. Left for dead in the Sonoran wasteland, she's reborn as Cactus Head: a vigilante fused with venomous spines and a spirit's bargain. Her mission? Erase evil, one algorithmically-quantified corpse at a time.
But when her crusade collides with a rogue tech team's satellite-a weapon she deems 19.9% corrupt-the line between ally and target blurs. From Seattle's underground silos to Dubai's trafficking rings, Cactus Head's past as a crown-chasing pageant queen tangles with her present: a storm of sap, scars, and cybernetic showdowns.
Can a former beauty queen turned bio-weapon outrun her own code? Or will the desert spirit claim its price-bloom or wither-when the final spine falls?
Evil is a math problem. She's the solution.
(And the problem just went viral.)