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Friday, November 20, 2020
***Cover Reveal!*** THE INVITATION by Vi Keeland!
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
***Blog Tour!*** RECLAIM by Aly Martinez
Reclaim, an all-new intense and heart-wrenching romance from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez is available now!
Choices. Everyone makes them. From mundane to unimaginable, one choice can change the trajectory of your entire life.
He was mine, but when the world closed in and secrets exploded all around us, it was my choice to let him go.
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Excerpt
He wedged his large body beside me in the bed. On his side, he draped one arm across my middle, curling his other under his head.
I watched him out of the corner of my eye, completely unsure if I was supposed to cuddle into him or what the hell we were doing.
“This okay?” he asked. “You comfortable?”
I was a lot of things. Confused. Lost. Overwhelmed by guilt.
But because it was Camden, comfortable was one of those things too.
As an answer, I rolled toward him and buried my face in his broad chest.
His whole body sagged as he began stroking the back of my hair. “Nora. Nora. Nora.”
In a way, Camden and I were strangers, but as his heart played in my ear, I felt two puzzle pieces clicking into place. A calm washed over me. The dark cloud of my betrayals still existed outside of Camden’s embrace; it just didn’t seem so ominous anymore. He knew all the dirty and broken parts of me and still came back, holding me as though he could keep me together.
Sliding an arm around his back, I curled in close, shifting to tangle my legs with his. “I’m tired, Cam.”
“I know,” he whispered, hugging me tight.
“No, you don’t. Nobody understands. I’m a disease who infects everyone who gets close to me.” My breathing shuddered. “It hurts. Everything hurts.”
“Do you remember our first summer together when a grasshopper got into the container where we held the extra worms? You screamed so loud when you opened that thing and it came flying out like a bat out of hell. It got on your shirt and then hung on for dear life. With all the racket you were making, the damn thing had to have been terrified, but he never jumped off. I had to peel it off your shirt, one leg at a time.”
I gagged at the memory. “Thanks for reminding me of that. Awesome timing.”
He chuckled and pressed his lips to the top of my head. “I’m the grasshopper clinging to your shirt, Nora.”
Now, if that wasn’t some good old classic Camden Cole rambling, I had no idea what was.
I tilted my head back, resting my chin on his pec, and peered up at him. “You do realize I have no idea what you’re talking about, right?”
My cold, hollow chest filled with a warmth I hadn’t felt in years when he grinned down at me.
“I genuinely thought you’d find your way back to me. A phone call. A visit. Anything. But as time passed and I got older, I realized I fell in love with a girl who had no idea how to be loved.”
My stomach wrenched, and emotion made my vision swim. “Camden, I—”
“No, just let me talk. Hear me out.” He tucked a stray hair behind my ear and let his thumb linger at my cheek, sweeping back and forth. “I know you love me, Nora. It’s flashed in your eyes every time you’ve seen me since we were kids. It’s like every light in the house suddenly comes on, but it terrifies you, so you spend the whole time we’re together running around, turning them all off, convincing yourself that you don’t deserve for people to love you back. But we still do it. Joe loves you. Thea loves you. Ramsey loves you. I’ll always love you.”
Wow! Nora and Camden’s story was EVERYTHING! I loved Release in every way and this was the perfect addition. As if my heart couldn’t hurt anymore, I willingly dove heart first into Reclaim. This story was so brilliantly written, expelling all my emotions. I loved the young friendship between Nora and Camden. Their innocence was beautiful, but the pain that soon followed was gut wrenching. My stomach was in knots and my entire being bled for Nora. Every girl should have a Camden Cole. I loved everything about him. He was so much more than he ever gave himself credit for. I adored that awkward, clumsy, chicken legged boy from the very beginning. I knew this was going to be a phenomenal read. Aly Martinez never disappoints and continues to be one of my most favorite authors.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
***Release Blitz!*** RECLAIM by Aly Martinez!
Reclaim, an all-new extremely raw and moving second chance romance from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez is available now!
Choices. Everyone makes them. From mundane to unimaginable, one choice can change the trajectory of your entire life.
He was mine, but when the world closed in and secrets exploded all around us, it was my choice to let him go.
Add Reclaim to Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3mysHDA
Monday, November 2, 2020
***SNEAK PEEK!*** Reclaim by Aly Martinez!
Reclaim, an all-new second chance romance from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez is coming November 12th and we have the first sneak peek!
**RECLAIM is a standalone that can be read and enjoyed independently.
However, it does contain spoilers for RELEASE**
Choices.
Everyone makes them.
From mundane and monotonous to life-changing and unimaginable.
But regardless what that choice may be, life is lived in the consequences.
People want to believe that decisions are weighted. In theory, “What should I have for dinner?” should fall on the opposite end of the spectrum as “Should I swallow this bottle of pills?” But in reality, even the smallest decision can change the trajectory of your entire life.
“Oh God!” Ramsey yelled, scrambling across the dirt road on all fours. I watched in the rearview mirror as he paused, hovering over the bloody and lifeless body, not sure which broken part to touch first. “No. No. No.”
I wanted to care. I wanted to be flooded with guilt and regret. I just wanted to fucking feel something again. Anything.
Instead, I sat there, stunned and utterly numb.
My brother’s mouth moved, fast and sharp, but I couldn’t hear him over the ringing in my ears. With shaky hands, I tried to open the car door twice before I was successful. My chest vibrated as a barrage of emotions ricocheted inside me, none of them able to escape. All of them slicing me to the core of my soul.
Or maybe it was only the remnants of my soul, because the rest of it had been destroyed long before that starry night.
I swung my legs out, my head swirling with the high of adrenaline, and I struggled to find even one breath of oxygen.
My brother was seventeen, but he looked like a man as he started chest compressions and rescue breathing. Curiously, I wondered where he’d learned that. Then I immediately wished he hadn’t.
It was pointless though. He was dead. I didn’t have to be up close and personal to know that.
“Come on, come on, come on,” Ramsey chanted, never giving up, just like the hero I knew him to be. “Breathe.”
That asshole didn’t deserve to breathe. He didn’t deserve anything. He’d already stolen it all from me.
“Stop,” I forced out.
Ramsey’s panicked gaze swung my way. “What the fuck happened?”
How much time did he have?
Wood splintering into my back.
Blink.
His fingers digging into my flesh.
Blink.
The welcomed darkness that swallowed me as my only way to survive.
Blink.
Thea.
Thea.
Thea.
“Let him die!” I roared so loudly that it scorched my throat.
But at least I felt that.
The sound of people talking in the distance interrupted my echo, and my brother’s panic skyrocketed. Ramsey quickly abandoned his attempts to revive him and raced in my direction, but just seeing him lying there, alone and lifeless the way I would always feel, gave me a sick sense of pleasure.
I should have been crying.
Why wasn’t I crying?
I’d spent two years living in fear—nightmares, sobbing until I physically passed out, hiding behind a smile for fear people could see the filth behind it.
Maybe there was nothing left of me to give. Not even tears.
The voices got closer, and Ramsey stepped into my line of sight, blocking out that monster the way I would never be able to do.
“You gotta go,” he barked. “I’ll take care of this, but you gotta go before someone sees you here.”
“I’m not leaving.”
He grabbed my shoulders and gave me a hard shake. “Listen to me. You have to leave. I’ll get the car and meet you back at the house. If anyone asks, you haven’t seen me. Tell them I’ve been with Thea all night.”
I could hear the words coming from his mouth, but I was struggling to process what he was saying. It was like an optical illusion: I could see the picture in front of me, but none of it felt real.
I glanced around and his car was still running, the front end smashed and covered in blood. “What if they see your car?”
“I’ll…I’ll… I’ll tell ’em I hit a deer or something.” He looked over his shoulder as three silhouettes appeared at the end of the Johnsons’ driveway. “Please, Nora,” he hissed. “I promise you this is going to be okay. But you can’t be here. If they find out what he did to you, they’ll know this wasn’t an accident. I can’t risk that. Okay? You weren’t here. Nothing happened. It was a terrible, terrible accident. End of story.” He palmed each side of my face and pressed a shaky kiss to my forehead.
That might have been more jarring for me than running over a man.
Ramsey wasn’t the most affectionate brother. We hugged on occasion, and when I was little, he’d always ruffled my hair or pinched me playfully on the side.
But he wasn’t a forehead kisser.
“Ramsey,” I choked out, the adrenaline starting to ebb from my system, a hurricane of emotions moving in.
“Please,” he whispered, his desperate and pleading brown eyes sparkling with unshed tears in the moonlight. “Just run home and get in bed. I’ll meet you there. Everything’s going to be okay.”
Okay. That was a word I recognized all too well. Not good. Or great. Or even fine. Just simply okay was a state of being for us.
Besides, Ramsey had never steered me wrong before.
So I squeezed his hand, and like a coward, I ran.
Choices. Everyone makes them.
But mine would ruin us all.
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Synopsis
Choices. Everyone makes them. From mundane to unimaginable, one choice can change the trajectory of your entire life.
He was mine, but when the world closed in and secrets exploded all around us, it was my choice to let him go.