✯BOOK BLITZ:✯ Consumed by Elizabeth Miceli {EXCERTPT + GIVEAWAY!}

~Book Blitz~

Consumed by Elizabeth Miceli

Release Date: August 31st 2016 by Swoon Romance

Series: Barren #2

Genres: Contemporary, New Adult

Stacey Lorenzo has finished treatment, but is still devastated by her past as she enters college. With drugs and alcohol so readily available, so much freedom, and barely any supervision, Stacey falls back into old habits. Soon it’s a daily dose of partying, self-medicating, and having sex with lots of different guys. As her relationship with Eli destructs, she falls for Jesse, who just so happens to be a drug dealer. Every time she starts to fall back into the memories of her past, Jesse makes it easy to snort away the pain.

But she snorts too much one night; it forces her to question the man she loves and acknowledge her mental and emotional instability. In the second installment of The Barren Series, Stacey must overcome her addiction and make peace with her past if she is ever to be truly happy again.

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{EXCERPT}

“Why don’t you repeat after me?” she asked, and then started.

“I am a recovering addict.”

My eyes started to tear as I opened my mouth.

“I’m a recovering addict.”

Carol didn’t waver as my voice quavered, betraying me. She just continued. “I’m smart,” I repeated it after her.

“I’m talented,” she continued.

“I’m talented.”

And then she said the affirmation that made me shake. An affirmation that felt all too much like a lie. “I’m special. I’m beautiful. I’m not perfect but I will be happy.”

I slowed down, wiping the tears away from my eyes. And I said the words as slowly as I could. Trying to believe them.

“I’m special?”

Carol nodded. “You are.”

“I’m beautiful?” The statements were coming out like questions. I wasn’t sure if I really was these things that Carol was having me repeat.

“I’m not perfect,” I sighed, making the affirmation my own. “But, I’m on the road to happiness.”

Carol put her arms around me and I sank into her embrace. I may not have been perfect, and I may not have felt beautiful- but I was trying. Trying to recover. Trying to be happy. Trying to live.

AUTHOR BIO:

Elizabeth hails from the smallest state with the biggest heart. She started off at The University of Akron and then transferred to the University of Rhode Island. She is a majoring in Human Development and Family Studies and minoring in Psychology. Although she loves writing- she also has a passion for helping others which is why she is studying to become a sex therapist/couples counselor. Elizabeth loves spending time with her family and friends, singing, eating everything Italian, and baking cookies. She is “in love with love” which is probably why the driving force in almost everything she writes is romance. When she’s not getting lost in her characters she can be found waiting for her prince charming in her North Kingstown, Rhode Island home. 

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