Other than that, I was worried about my Snoopy Snow Cone Machine, and that was about it. I had even painted her fingernails with glittered polish and made her a sexy dress out of the red bandannas my mother made me wear to bed so my pressed hair wouldn’t frizz up. Table lamps, my father’s eight-track tape player, and my mother’s dishes were all replaceable, but the hell if I was going to be able to replace my Barbie. I figured the driver was going to lose control of the truck for sure, and every valuable possession we owned would end up strewn all over the street.īeing the wonderful and unselfish little girl I was, my main concern was that my black Barbie didn’t lose a limb or anything in the process. I was sitting on the curb playing jacks when the big truck came flying around the corner, practically tilted on one side. The movers got there about an hour after we did. We were in the fifth grade, and from the day my parents and I drove up in our Ford station wagon, I knew he was trouble. The feeling was mutual, though, because our first physical interaction was when he gave me the finger and then spit on my saddle shoes.

The first time I ever laid eyes on Jason, I thought he was a junior-mack-daddy-wannabe that probably sat around on a Commodore 64 computer drinking grape Kool-Aid out of a peanut butter jar while watching Good Times. As her life spins out of control and her sexual escapades carry her toward a dangerous choice, Zoe is racing against time to uncover the source of her “fatal attraction”-as chilling secrets tumble forth from the recesses of a woman's mind, and perilous temptations lead toward a climax that can threaten her sanity, her marriage…and her life. From the sensitive artist with whom she spends stolen hours on rumpled sheets to the rough and violent man who draws her toward destruction, Zoe is a woman desperately searching for fulfillment-and something darker, deeper, and perhaps deadly. But Zoe feels helpless in the grip of an overpowering addiction…to sex.įinding a compassionate woman therapist to help her, Zoe finally summons the courage to tell her torrid story, a tale of guilt and desire as shocking as it is compelling. Once described as “the hottest paperback in the country” by the New York Times and now a major motion picture distributed by Lionsgate, this wildly popular novel by the Queen of Erotica follows one woman’s life as it spirals out of control when her three extramarital affairs lead her down a dark and twisted path.įor successful African-American businesswoman Zoe Reynard, finding the pleasure she wants, the way she wants it, is not worth the risk of losing everything she has: marriage to the man she has loved since childhood, a thriving company, and three wonderful children.

James’s 50 Shades of Grey, there was Zane’s Addicted.

Addicted a novel by zane