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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Between his increasingly demanding online persona, his new role as pharmaceutical spokesperson, and the mounting threat of being arrested, Emmett had neither the time nor energy to address his relationship with Aaron.

It had been limping along for months, held together by occasional sleepovers and the fear that if things ended badly, both their jobs would be in jeopardy.

An undercurrent of unacknowledged tension crackled beneath every interaction, as if they both knew that one wrong move could bring the whole thing crashing down.

Aaron spent Christmas with his family in New York, and Emmett told his family that he’d gone with him; in reality, he spent the day at the Castillos’ being force-fed tamales and pozole by Lizette’s mother and tías, wondering if Aaron was equally grateful for the distance between them.