Roxy – Shusterman Neal (2021)

From the team behind the New York Times bestseller Dry comes a riveting thriller exploring the opioid crisis. The freeway is coming, cutting the neighborhood in two. Construction has begun, pushing through a corridor of condemned houses and cracked concrete with the momentum of the inevitable. Yet you are in the fifth house on the left, fighting for your life. Ramey, I. You are the victim of a wager between two manufactured gods, Roxy and Addison—Roxicodone and Adderall, low-level cronies of more illustrious bosses who above all want to prove their lethality. Their contest to see who can cause an overdose first is a race to the bottom of a party that has raged since the beginning of time. You are only human, seduced by the release they bring and tempted by the control they offer. They are beautiful, and they will give you the world as long as you promise them forever. But there are two I. Rameys: Isaac, a soccer player drawn into Roxy’s orbit by a bad fall and a bad doctor, and Ivy, his older sister, whose growing frustration with her untreated ADHD leads her to renew her acquaintance with Addy. Which one are you?