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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There was blood on Emmett’s hands as he reached to silence his morning alarm: a dark, crusted smear across his palm, trailing grimy tracks down his wrist.

He pulled off his CPAP mask and sat up, gazing at his upturned palms. Bella came sniffing and he pushed her away with his forearm, afraid she might lick; he’d heard dogs carried germs in their mouths that could infect a cut.

But he wasn’t injured. There was no pain even when he squeezed his fists closed.

Cold realization washed over him: the blood wasn’t his.