Beautiful, brilliant Emma Weiss finds her soul mate in Jake Stanton, only to learn that he has been a struggling drug addict. Can Emma cope with his addiction to drugs and overcome her own addiction to him?
"Addictive" is the newest novel by award-winning author Leslie E. Stern. Addictive offers a fictional, though realistically relatable, tale of a dream relationship gone wrong. "During all my speaking engagements I ask the question, ‘How many of you have been in a relationship that you kicked yourself for afterwards?' I have yet to see one person whose hand isn't raised," says Stern. "It's a common problem to lose your objectivity when it comes to love."
Set in Savannah, Ga., "Addictive" follows twenty-eight-year-old Emma Weiss, a member of Mensa who holds a doctorate degree in psychology, and her move to the charming historic city where she meets handsome Jake Stanton and falls in love. Emma is convinced that Jake is her soul mate until she unwittingly discovers he has been a struggling drug addict. Emma becomes caught up in his life of deceit, drugs and the law. Does beautiful, brilliant Emma find the strength to cope with Jake's addiction to drugs and to overcome her own addiction to him? Stern hopes readers will take from her book that if this mistake can happen to Emma, it could happen to anyone.
Professional Reviews
Murray Silver, author of of the international bestseller "Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis"
"It is said (mainly by publishers in New York) that literary lightning never strikes the same place twice, and the little town of Savannah, Georgia has already fostered the bestselling non-fiction novel of all time with John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Fortunately for the reader, the garden yields another wonderful harvest with Leslie Stern's musings of life and love in the Lowcountry…"
Rosemary Daniell, award-winning author of "Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women’s Lives"
"Get ready to have your heartstrings wrung by Emma, an otherwise worldly and fortunate woman who’s nevertheless done wrong time after time by the man she naively believes will bring her happiness. Leslie Stern’s novel Addiction is a story that will stir women’s hearts. Indeed, it will resonate for many, many readers, especially those whose lives have been – whether wittingly or unwittingly – touched by addiction and/or a love affair gone wrong.”
Kathy LeJeune, book reviewer
“Addictive is a must read and when you read the last page it will continue to haunt your thoughts! It is UnPutDownAble!!!”
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