Nothing Tastes As Good

Nothing Tastes As Good

Author: Luke Dumas Listening Length: 11h 25m
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The nationally bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new thriller about a weight loss treatment with terrifying side effects. Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he...

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Emmett’s gut was a gnawing, scratching hole of want. Hunger—the little-h variety—hit him the moment he opened his eyes, a sharp-toothed ache of satisfying torment.

Feel the burn.

Usually he awoke bloated from the previous night’s overindulgence—and he had overindulged, capping off his dinner with Aaron with a drive-thru burrito and half a tray of Lizette’s homemade magic bars. He’d passed out feeling like he’d swallowed a bowling ball.

Now he was ravenous, his stomach shrunken and empty. And because his stomach felt small, he felt small, lighter in every sense of the word.