Yay! I am so, so, so excited that today is finally here. It feels like I've been waiting for Addicted tolink to all the places you can get it :)release ever since I wrote Ruined, LOL. Here's a
Anyway, in honor of Addicted's release, I'm putting up an exclusive snippet. And for those of you who can't get enough Ethan-- never fear. This isn't the last you'll see of him and Chloe ... I can't give details yet, but they'll definitely be around in the future!
Thanks so much for helping me celebrate release day! And there are two great giveaways going on right now to help celebrate Addicted's release-- one from my publisher and one from me-- so make sure you check those out as well!
Happy Reading!
Blurb
Ethan Frost returns in the breathtaking conclusion to New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Tracy Wolff’s seductive novel Ruined—perfect for fans of Release Me and Bared to You.
As Chloe Girard discovers, there’s love . . . and then there’s addiction.
Ethan Frost is everything a woman could want in a man. He’s rich, gorgeous, powerful, one of the most eligible bachelors in the world.
But that’s not why I’m with him.
I love Ethan for all the things no one else gets to see: his innate kindness, his reckless spontaneity, his unwavering determination to use his brilliance for good. I love the way he looks at me, the way he touches me. The way he makes me forget the wreckage of my past and the twisted fear that still lives inside me.
Excerpt:
“So, I guess I’m heading back upstairs,” Tori says
after a minute. “Unless you need me for something?”
“No. I’m good. Thanks, Tor.”
“No problem. Knock him dead, Chlo.”
“I’m not even going to see him today,” I protest.
She smiles wryly. “Of course you’re not.”
“I’m not.” I can’t. Just the thought of seeing
Ethan makes me shaky. I may not be angry at him, but that’s a far cry from wanting
to see him. And I don’t. I really don’t. Not now, when all I can see is Brandon’s
mocking grin. When all I can hear is him calling Ethan his brother. His brother.
Maybe it’s cowardly, maybe it’s self-preservation.
To be honest, I don’t really care. All I want to do is get through the day
without any more casualties.
Surely that’s not too much to ask.
Except obviously, it is. Because as I move to set
my briefcase on the passenger seat, I see a thick, cream envelope on the
passenger side floorboard. It’s facedown, but I don’t need to see the Frost
Industries return address to recognize Ethan’s stationery. He’s sent me so many
letters and packages over the last few weeks—all on or accompanied by official
company letterhead—that I’m pretty sure I’d recognize it in my sleep.
For a second, I’m tempted to take the coward’s way
out. To leave the envelope where it lies and pretend I never saw it.
Except I’ve never been a coward. And though there’s
a part of me that thinks there’s no excuse Ethan can make, no story he can
tell, that will make what happened yesterday okay, there’s another part of me
that wants him to try. That wants to see what he has to say.
It’s a double-edged sword, one I’m afraid I don’t
have the skill—or the heart—to keep balanced on. And yet, even knowing how
dangerous it is to my own mental health, I reach for the envelope.
For long seconds, I just hold it in my hands,
watching it like I expect it to spontaneously combust. When it doesn’t, I
eventually lift it to my nose and breathe in the elusive, barely there scent of
it.
Like rain on a sunny, summer day.
Like blueberries and warm, sweet maple syrup.
It smells like Ethan and the truth of that nearly
brings me to my knees.
Again, I almost set the envelope aside unopened. Again,
I think about shredding it, burning it, throwing it away whole. About doing
anything and everything to it but the one thing Ethan intended—opening it.
And yet, knowing Ethan wrote whatever is in there
exclusively for me, makes it impossible for me to do anything but run my
fingertips along the envelope seams in an effort to pry it open.
Eventually I get it open and the first thing that
falls out is a picture of the two of us.
Just looking at it gets the tears burning behind
my eyes all over again, but I clear my throat, blink several times. I’ve
cried too much in the last twenty-four hours and I’m not going to do it
anymore. Not now. Not today.
It’s hard though, very hard, because I remember
the day this picture was taken. It was right at the beginning, right after
Ethan and I first met. It was a charity event on the beach benefiting the
environment and I’d been trying, hopelessly I might add, to build a sand castle.
Ethan had come around and—much to my chagrin—sat down next to me. Within half
an hour, we’d built
one of the most impressive sand castles on the beach. When one of the judges
came by, she’d given us a perfect score and that’s the moment this picture had
been taken, Ethan’s head and mine tilted backward with laughter as we stand
over our sand castle and the tide slowly rolls in.
It had been a good night, one of the first nights
we spent time together. I had tried so hard to keep Ethan at arm’s length, but I
know that this is one of those times that I can point to and say that this
place, this moment, is when I began to really fall for Ethan.
Though I know I should probably throw the picture
away, I shove it in my purse instead. Then I pull out the only other thing in
the envelope, a folded letter that seems to actually be burning my fingertips.
For long seconds, I just sit there with the letter
in my hands, eyes squeezed shut and body shaking. Part of me is dying to open
it, dying to know what Ethan has to say. But another part of me is terrified of
what I’ll find, terrified of what his words will do to me. I’m barely hanging
on as it is. The slightest thing—good or bad—might very well send me over the
edge.
In the end, though, I don’t have a choice. Knowing
what Ethan wrote is a compulsion within me, one I have no shot at not obeying. With
a deep breath, I unfold the paper, smooth my fingers over the creases. And then
I start to read.
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Have a great day!!!!!
