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Cover of the book The Food Addict: Recovering from Binge Eating Disorder and Making Peace with Food

The Food Addict: Recovering from Binge Eating Disorder & Making Peace with Food is now available on Amazon

The Food Addict takes us on a tour of Merry Brown’s 25-year diet disasters, culminating in Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and clinical depression. She tells her story of BED recovery and making peace with food. Freed from the false notion her unhealthy relationship with food was a lack of self-control, she was able to see the real issue: addiction. Armed with this knowledge, she explains how she conquered BED and the endless vicious cycle of dieting.

The Food Addict: Recovering From Binge Eating Disorder & Making Peace with Food  is part memoir with equal parts  encouragement, social commentary, and guide to tackling the obesity epidemic with compassion and dignity.

The Four Families Series

Gold Manor Ghost House is the first book in the Four Families series.

Anna Rose Ellington is sixteen and living in Hollywood, hoping to be a star. Anna just landed a major role on Ghost House, TeenTV’s new fall drama.  A show promising to be so hot, Meg Sweet (the reigning teenage diva), signed on for the lead, and Adam Lewis (international rock sensation) is a principal player.

Her dreams are falling into place until she gets on set and begins questioning her sanity.  It’s true she has an unusual dream life, where once in a while her dreams literally come true.  But it’s been a while.  On top of her dreams not staying put in her brain, including the guy she’d been dreaming of for years, the house they’re filming in, Gold Manor? Turns out it might actually be haunted.  But that’s the least of her worries.

Crimson Hall Ghost House is the second book in the Four Families series. Anna & Adam found each other… But so did the paparazzi And the Fourth And the ghosts And Adam’s mother- the greatest threat of all. Who will pay? SOMEONE ALWAYS PAYS.

Silver Tree Ghost House is the third book in the Four Families series. Anna leaves season one of Ghost House shattered. Adam knows he’s to blame. Corey is ready to pick up the pieces. Meg is seeing ghosts. A new actor comes, bringing mayhem as one is replaced. And someone is going to die.

Serpent Star Ghost House concludes the Four Families series and is schedule to come out spring 2022.

The Exiled Trilogy

The Knowers is the first book in the Exiled Trilogy. If Twilight and The Avengers had a baby and that baby was now a teenager, you’d have the new YA novel The Knowers. No vampires, werewolves, or demi-gods invited, so what is the new girl Will falls for? How can she be equal parts good and deadly? Will’s sole ambition is to get out of high school alive and away from his vicious father. Will’s brilliant plan to fly below the radar blows up in his face when he gets involved with the mysterious Lizzy. Will mistakes his world as the danger to avoid, only to discover what Lizzy really is. How can Will, a Knower, and Lizzy, a daughter from The Garden, possibly find a way to be together?

The Second Fall is the second book in the Trilogy. Will and Lizzy stood hand-in-hand as his family estate went up in flames. Watching every last possession burn by the unnatural fire – Will thought he found love. Will thought he was free from the wickedness of the wraith lord. Will thought his friendships were forever. Will thought the originals were selfless. Will thought his family was dead. Will was considerably wrong.

The United, the last book of the Exiled Trilogy, follows Will and Lizzy as they struggle with the choices made by the people they care most about. Is peace possible? Will love win over revenge and hatred? All must live with the choices they make, for good or for ill.