The Most Addicting Series Ever
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1. ADDICTED TO YOU by Krista & Becca Ritchie
SYNOPSIS
She’s addicted to sex. He’s addicted to booze… the only way out is rock bottom.
No one would suspect shy Lily Calloway’s biggest secret. While everyone is dancing at college bars, Lily stays in the bathroom. To get laid. Her compulsion leads her to one-night stands, steamy hookups and events she shamefully regrets. The only person who knows her secret happens to have one of his own.
Loren Hale’s best friend is his bottle of bourbon. Lily comes at a close second. For three years, they’ve pretended to be in a real relationship, hiding their addictions from their families. They’ve mastered the art of concealing flasks and random guys that filter in and out of their apartment.
But as they sink beneath the weight of their addictions, they cling harder to their destructive relationship and wonder if a life together, for real, is better than a lie. Strangers and family begin to infiltrate their guarded lives, and with new challenges, they realize they may not just be addicted to alcohol and sex.
Their real vice may be each other.
1.5. RICOCHET by Krista & Becca Ritchie
SYNOPSIS
As a sex addict, Lily Calloway must do the impossible. Stay celibate for 90 days.
Cravings and fantasies become her new routine, but while Loren Hale recovers from his alcohol addiction, Lily wonders if he’ll realize what a monster she really is. After all, her sexual compulsions begin to rule her life the longer she stays faithful to him.
Progress. That’s what Lily’s striving for. But by trying to become closer to her family—people who aren’t aware of her addiction—she creates larger obstacles. When she spends time with her youngest sister, she learns more about her than she ever imagined and senses an unsettling connection between Daisy and Ryke Meadows.
With Lily and Lo’s dysfunctional relationship teetering and unbalanced, they will need to find a way to reconnect from miles apart. But the inability to ‘touch’ proves to be one of the hardest tests on their road to recovery. Some love brushes the surface. Some love is deeper than skin.
Lily and Lo have three months to discover just how deep their love really goes.
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2. ADDICTED FOR NOW by Krista & Becca Ritchie
SYNOPSIS
He’s addicted to booze. She’s addicted to sex... staying sober is only half the battle.
No. More. Sex. Those are the three words Lily Calloway fears the most. But Loren Hale is determined to be with Lily without enabling her dangerous compulsions. With their new living situation—sleeping in the same bed, for real, together—Lily has new battles. Like not jumping Lo’s bones every night. Not being consumed by sex and his body.
Loren plans to stay sober, to right all of his wrongs. So when someone threatens to expose Lily’s secret to her family and the public, he promises that he’ll do anything to protect her. But with old enemies surfacing, Lo has more at stake than his sobriety. They will torment Lily until Lo breaks. And his worst fear isn’t relapsing. He hears the end. He sees it. The one thing that could change everything. Just three words. No. More. Us.
3. KISS THE SKY by Krista & Becca Ritchie
SYNOPSIS
A virgin ‘ice queen’ heiress & the arrogant god-like man who wants to melt her.
Rose Calloway thought she had everything under control. At twenty-three, she’s a Princeton graduate, an Academic Bowl champion, a fashion designer and the daughter of a Fortune 500 mogul. But with a sex addict as a sister and roommate, nothing comes easy. When Rose’s fashion line is in peril, she plans an unconventional solution to save it. Making matters more intense, she agreed to be in a real relationship with her ‘godly’ college rival. And now they’re living together. For the first time.
At twenty-four, Connor Cobalt bulldozes weak men. Confident and smart-as-hell, Connor vows to help Rose outside of the bedroom and inside. But melting this ice queen is a challenge no one has been able to win.
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4. HOTHOUSE FLOWER by Krista & Becca Ritchie
SYNOPSIS
Ryke Meadows, meet Daisy Calloway... she’s all grown up.
Twenty-five-year-old Ryke Meadows knows he’s hard to love. With a billion-dollar inheritance, a track-star resume, and an alpha-male personality—he redefines the term likable asshole. But he’s not living to make friends. Or enemies. He just wants to free climb three of the toughest mountains in Yosemite without drama or interruption. And then he receives a distressed call from a girl in Paris—a girl that he has never been allowed to have.
Daisy Calloway is eighteen. Finally. With her newfound independence, she can say goodbye to her overbearing mother and continue her modeling career. Next stop, Paris. Fashion week begins with a bang, and Daisy uncovers the ugly reality of the industry. She wants to prove to her family that she can live on her own, but when everything spirals out of control, she turns to Ryke to keep her secrets.
As Daisy struggles to make sense of this new world and her freedom, she pushes the limits and fearlessly rides the edge. Ryke knows there’s deep hurt beneath every impulsive action. He must keep up with Daisy, and if he lets her go, her favorite motto—’live as if you’ll die today’—may just come true.
4.5. THRIVE by Krista & Becca Ritchie
SYNOPSIS
Two years will change them forever.
When rumors spread like wildfire—like having three-ways with her boyfriend’s rock climbing brother—Lily Calloway spirals into a dark place. Her bedroom. Loren Hale is more confident and determined to keep their sex life private, even from their friends, and he helps Lily in the only way he knows how. But how much love is too much?
Their lives are filmed, watched, and criticized. And through it all, Lily and Loren have to face enemies they never thought they’d see, demons they don’t know if they should bury, and setbacks they didn’t think they’d meet. Not this soon.
And one rumor could be too much for them to handle. It will test their greatest limitations, and if they don’t hold onto each other, someone is going to drown.
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5. ADDICTED AFTER ALL by Krista & Becca Ritchie
SYNOPSIS
Two addicts. One epic love story.
Prepare for the worst. That’s what Lily and Lo try to do when Jonathan Hale schedules an ‘important’ meeting. The problem: after being swept into the public eye and battling their addictions, they’re not sure what the worst is anymore.
In a sea of many changes—including Ryke & Daisy living with them—Lily realizes that the best part of her fluctuating hormones might just be the worst. Her sex drive is out of control.
Loren knows that she’s insatiable, but he’s not giving up on her. She’s too much a part of him. And as he carries more and more responsibility, some of the people that he loves doubt his resolve.
In the conclusion to their love story, Lily & Lo stand side-by-side to fight, one last time, for their happily ever after.
BOOK REVIEW
We lied for each other and hid our infidelities, playing the role of doting boyfriend and girlfriend. The deeper we sink, the harder it is to crawl out. I fear the moment when… someone discovers our secrets. At any moment, everything can crumble beneath us.
Addicted to sex Lily and addicted to alcohol Lo were childhood friends who were burdened by their overly demanding infuriating families, damaged, and impossibly lonely (you’ll get that type of emptiness once you read the series). However, they had undeniably beautiful and all-consuming feelings towards one another that helped them to stay strong enough to fight their own and common battles. Lily was always there for Lo, and Lo was always there for Lily. Their relationship was very messy but also very real. Truly inspiring!
“I’m not one of your conquests,” he says in a throaty voice. “I know what you want, and you don’t need to take it. I can give it to you... Let me try,” he says, his hand cupping my face. “Let me try to be enough for you.”
OMG I became addicted to Loren Hale! He was such a deeply tormented but painfully beautiful soul. Lo was flawed, seemingly beyond repair. But the parts of him that stayed untarnished, the only ones he loved in himself the most were the parts that belonged to Lily. His love for her was the biggest I’ve ever come across, seriously.
There’s something about Lily that makes all the terrible parts of me seem irrelevant. That makes a bad day momentary and a good one infinite. It’s love like this that’s worth living for.
Lily was such an intriguing female character, portrayed in a very unique way. The authors did an amazing job describing Lily’s struggle against her addiction—her self-loathing, pain, and all the emotions in-between. She didn’t seem promiscuous despite such a socially damned stigma attached to her. She turned out to be heart-wrenchingly raw, the one you can easily relate to, connect to. I was pleasantly surprised to see her strength and devotion and determination to help Lo despite the prominence of her own weaknesses, as well as inner battle against her vicious addiction.
“Lily Calloway… all this time, your superpower has been loving me.” Tears cloud my eyes, and they don’t stop, especially as he adds, “And you’ll be happy to know that I’m not mortal.”
“You aren’t?” I choke.
“No.” He shakes his head, brushing away the wetness beneath my eyes. “Because my superpower is the love that I have for you. It’s out of this world, extraordinary, incomprehensible kind of love. And no one and nothing on this Earth comes close to it.”
The Addicted book series was super emotional for me, keeping me on the edge and in tears all the fucking time. My heart was filled with so many conflicting emotions all at once. I just felt so connected to these fascinating characters I couldn’t help but get seriously attached. I’ve never felt so deeply invested in the fictional couple of so flawed and damaged characters who clearly loved each other so fucking much and did their very best in order to make it through together. Both Lily and Lo knew perfectly well that they could do anything as long as the other was by their side… It was truly the most incredible, epic, out of this world love story I’ve ever had the pleasure to read!
“I speak for everyone here today, he tells us, when I say that you two—Lily and Loren—are the strongest people we’ve all ever had the honor to meet.”
6. FUEL THE FIRE by Krista & Becca Ritchie
SYNOPSIS
Protect your family. At all costs.
It’d take the impossible to hurt Connor Cobalt, even for a moment.
Protect your family. At all costs.
At twenty-six, his narcissistic tendencies have made room for the people he loves.
Protect your family. At all costs.
And he loves Rose. But when his love is threatened, when his greatest dreams with her are compromised — what is the cost then?
Protect your family. At all costs.
Love will guide his choices. For the first time in his life.
7. LONG WAY DOWN by Krista & Becca Ritchie
SYNOPSIS
With a seven-year age difference, Ryke & Daisy have faced an uphill battle in the eyes of the world and their families. Known as the most adventurous, fast-paced couple — their next step has always been elusive to the rabid media. Behind the scenes, heartbreaking troubles continue to test Ryke & Daisy’s resilience and shape their future together.
They promise: To never slow down; To never compromise who they are; To never abandon their love for each other.
But preserving their happiness also means adding more risks. Ones that Connor Cobalt wouldn’t even take. As a professional free-solo climber, Ryke is no stranger to risk, but his next step with Daisy wagers more than just his health. With their lives on the line, Ryke & Daisy head towards the vast, wild unknown in this epic final conclusion to the Addicted series.
8. SOME KIND OF PERFECT by Krista & Becca Ritchie
SYNOPSIS
The conclusion to the epic ten-book series about the unbreakable strength of family, friendship, and love.
Lily & Lo are back one final time. Childhood best friends and soul mates.
Ryke & Daisy are back one final time. Wild risk-takers and flirty adventurers.
Connor & Rose are back one final time. Genius rivals and intellectual teammates.
Ten years of laughter. Of heartache. And love.
BOOK REVIEW
Independence has nothing to do with whether or not someone chooses to be single or to be married, to have children or to not have children. Independence by definition is about self-governing. About choosing for yourself. About making your own decisions.
Lily & Lo, Connor & Rose, and Ryke & Daisy had finally become independent after ten years of laughter, of heartache, and love.
I absolutely loved the conclusion (definitely not the end) of the most addicting series ever, and so will you, no doubt!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Krista & Becca Ritchie are New York Times and USA Today best-selling authors and identical twins—one a science nerd, the other a comic book geek—but with their shared passion for writing, they combined their mental powers as kids and have never stopped telling stories.
Graduates from the University of Georgia in Biology and English & Journalism, the twin writing duo now lives in Atlanta.
Now in their twenties, they write about other twenty-somethings navigating through life, college, and romance. They love superheroes, flawed characters, and soul mate love.
NB! Krista and Becca constantly release promotional materials through blog tours and surprise events. Some of the material may be bonus scenes, character interviews or even fun posts like text messages and character profiles. You can find them HERE.