Bittersweet Nightshade

Ainsleigh Harper is one of the Gifted. Unlucky enough to manifest strength too immense to control, she spends most of her time drinking and avoiding her fraught relationship with her mother. There's only so many times she can handle being called a monster.
The dream is to escape. To run away and start a new life with her best friend and famous fellow Gifted, Cassidy 'Healer' Drake.
But when Cassidy disappears without a trace, something within Ainsleigh finally snaps. Drunk and bleeding out after a savage wolf attack, Ainsleigh is found by a mysterious stranger and learns that she's not as stranded and alone as she feared.
Now Ainsleigh has three questions;
Where is Cassidy?
Can her secretive saviour really be trusted?
And why does whiskey taste so good?