Aly Martinez

Did you ever hear the joke about the guy whose wife cheated on him with his best friend? So he quit his job, moved into his parents’ basement, and gained 50 pounds? No? Because that wasn’t a joke. It was my life....

My name was Dr. Erica Hill. I was a victim, then a witness, and then I ceased to exist altogether....

Choices. Everyone makes them. From mundane to unimaginable, one choice can change the trajectory of your entire life. My mother’s choice was to abandon us with our abusive father. My brother’s choice was to go to prison for killing the boy who assaulted his soulmate....

In the aftermath of tragedy, it’s strange the things you remember. The deafening boom as the house exploded. The paralyzing fear as I searched for my wife. The blinding smoke burning my eyes as I carried her out....

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me. Whoever coined that phrase is a bald-faced liar....

I met Sarah Kate Erickson when I was 21 years old. I was lucky enough to keep her for seven years before a tragic accident stole her from me....

Hudson Bradley is the cockiest, most stubborn, hard-headed man I’ve ever known. And for 15 years, he’s been my brother's best friend. But lately, what I’m feeling for him isn’t friendship at all....

When I was eight years old, Caven Hunt saved me from the worst kind of evil to walk the Earth. It didn’t matter that I was a kid. I fell in love with him all the same. But that was where my fairy tale ended....

I was afraid to fly. He made me soar. After years of climbing the ladder of success in the music industry, I finally had everything I could want. Yet I still found myself wandering through life alone. Captain Evan Roth was the one man I never saw coming....

There was no such thing as giving up on Ramsey. Love may have been our curse, but he was mine - then, now, and forever....

When I was 15, a single bullet changed my life. I spent the next decade building an empire that would shield me from whatever life could throw at me. But all the money in the world couldn’t help me when I found a screaming newborn abandoned on my doorstep....

That was all it took for me to know Elisabeth was my soul mate. Five years, countless infertility treatments, and the loss of our only son. That was what it took for me to lose her....

Technically, you aren't supposed to fall in love with your best friend's girl. But if we're talking technicalities, he wasn't supposed to be cheating on her every other weekend, either....

Sound is an abstract concept for most people. We spend our lives blocking out the static in order to focus on what we believe is important....

I wanted to jump. He made me fall. As a celebrity, I lived in the public eye, but somewhere along the way, I'd lost myself in the spotlight. Until he found me....

I come from a family of fighters. I always thought I'd follow in their shadows, becoming unstoppable in the ring....

The complete series. Three full-length novels. Fighting Silence, Fighting Shadows, and Fighting Solitude....

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me. Lies. Words destroyed me. "I'm sorry. She didn't make it." "Daddy, he can't breathe!"....

I was born a fighter. Abandoned by my parents, I spent my life forging my own path - one guided by my fists and paved with pain....

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