Smack

Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction

Author: Melvin Burgess

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space…..Read More

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