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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To celebrate Lizette’s thirtieth birthday, her family took her and Emmett to SeaWorld.

He had good memories of going there with his dad when he was a kid, but not since he was seventeen and a ride operator at the new manta ray–themed roller coaster looked him up and down and said, “We’re probably not gonna get you on this.

” In fact they did get him on, by smashing the restraints down over his chest and stomach, but the experience was so humiliating, and the ride so physically painful, that he’d never tried it again.

These days Emmett would have no trouble, but out of respect for Lizette, who didn’t stand a chance, he walked the park with her while her family and Armando stood in line.