Addicted Books in Order

The Addicted series revolves around desire, compulsion, and the messy work of healing, all viewed through the lens of successful Black professionals whose lives look perfect from the outside. At its center is Zoe Reynard, an Atlanta businesswoman who has built an enviable life with her childhood sweetheart, Jason.

In Addicted, Zoe seems to have it all: a thriving company, a beautiful home, and three children she adores. But underneath that polish is a secret she can’t control. What began as a search for more excitement in the bedroom has spiraled into multiple affairs and risky behavior that threatens everything she’s built. The novel alternates between her sessions with therapist Dr. Marcella Spencer and flashbacks that slowly uncover the roots of her sex addiction.

The book isn’t just about explicit encounters, though there are plenty. It digs into how early trauma, shame, and silence can shape adult choices, even for someone who appears powerful and in control. Zoe’s therapy scenes give readers a window into the long, uneven process of facing the past, while her double life shows how easy it is to hide serious problems behind money and success.

Years later, Addicted with a Twist revisits Zoe and Jason after the events of the first book. They’re still together, still raising their family, and outwardly more stable. But old habits and new temptations lurk beneath the surface. Zoe finds herself pulled toward a stranger who calls himself Orpheus, and she has to decide whether to be brutally honest with her therapist and loved ones or slip back into secrecy. The follow-up is shorter but no less tense, asking whether recovery is ever a straight line.

Two other novels, Nervous and Vengeance, share the same fictional world and deepen its emotional landscape. In Nervous, Jonquinette Pierce struggles with a split personality—her alter ego, Jude, takes over on weekends and chases dangerous sexual thrills. Dr. Marcella Spencer once again becomes a lifeline, tying the book thematically to Zoe’s story. Vengeance follows Caprice Tatum, a pop star known as Wicket who returns to Atlanta determined to confront those who hurt her as a teenager, only to find that revenge and healing don’t always travel the same road.

Read together, these books explore how unresolved trauma can erupt as addiction, self-sabotage, or obsessive revenge, even when careers and bank accounts say “success.” They mix erotic scenes with therapy sessions, family drama, and the day-to-day pressures of Black middle-class life in cities like Atlanta and Washington, D.C.

If you’re coming to the series for the first time, start with Addicted, move to Addicted with a Twist, and then treat Nervous and Vengeance as companion novels. You’ll see familiar names and themes resurface, especially Dr. Spencer, and get a fuller sense of the emotional universe Zane has built around the cost—and possibility—of desire.