The series is designed to give readers the maximum experience providing suspense and anticipation like never before, offered in an addiction memoir.

Part 4 is provided as a FREE book, when the first parts have been ordered. You must purchase books 1, 2 & 3 to attain the full story. Please Note: this book is part 1 of a 4 part series. Part I prepares us for a peek into the life of a recovering addict whom hasn't yet 'recovered.' It sets us up for Part II which begins to highlight an obsessive relationship she forms with a much older, male counter-part at the center, and leaves us begging for more. Her closest confidante is pimped out and relapses, in addition to her own struggles, and even she begins to question: what is the cost of sobriety from drugs? Do we not just replace the primary addiction with the next best thing? In part I we witness Danielle's struggle to stay sober, as she pushes needle and heroin use to the side, but cannot shake her other addictions self mutilation, pain, love, attention, and dabbling in 'recreational' drug use.įrom jamming seven hits of acid down her throat, to being part of a dysfunctional triangle between a best friend and her first lover since her split from her fiance of six years, Danielle must choose where to run and hide when all hell begins to break loose. As she is admitted into Bellevue for several weeks of eye surgeries, upon her discharge she enters Safe Haven Village NYC's NOTORIOUS intensive rehabilitation center, most known for housing felons, homeless patrons, and the mentally ill who suffer from addiction. Teens will gobble up this fast-paced novel.What happens when an entire generation comes undone?ĭanielle Martino hitches a greyhound bus to New York City to save her one good eye, after shooting bad heroin, only to find herself facing even more adversity from day one. This compelling puzzle of a story, filled with engrossing twists and turns, is written in alternating prose and text message formats. That is, until the bot starts dropping hints that there was more going on with Vanessa than Bailey realized-a secret so big, it may have contributed to Vanessa’s death. The more data she uploads to the bot, the more it feels like she’s really talking to her best friend.

To help grieve her loss, Bailey creates a chat bot of Vanessa using years’ worth of their shared text messages and emails. Now Bailey, who thought she knew Vanessa better than anyone in the world, is left with a million unanswered questions, and the only person with answers is gone. But that all changed the night Vanessa left Bailey’s, headed for home, and ended up swerving off a cliff nowhere near her house. An emotionally complex portrayal of secrets, loss, and grief from Dante Medema, Indies Introduce author of the Indie Next Pick title The Truth Project.īailey and Vanessa shared everything: laughter, secrets, and packets of Pop Rocks to ward off bad days.

Addictarium by Nicole D'Settēmi