Erica is one of the main characters in LoveSick by Jake Coburn. She is a freshman in college; the daughter of a very wealthy father who is overprotective of her. She is also bulimic. This worries her father, who, in LoveSick, hires Ted, a former basketball player whose hopes and scholarship for college basketball, vanished in a drunk driving accident. Ted is supposed to spy on Erica in her freshman year, in return for a
free ride through college. The two find themselves at a snooty private college where, the only real friends they make, are each other.