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.
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.
Camden Cole’s choice was to fall in love with a shattered girl who had absolutely nothing to offer him but heartbreak.
It was one summer beneath the trees, but with Camden, I had a place where I belonged.
A friend who was always waiting for me.
A boy who I caught staring at me more often than not.
He was mine, but when the world closed in and secrets exploded all around us, it was my choice to let him go.
Choices. Everyone makes them.
But mine would ruin us all.
Eek!! I’ve wanted Nora’s story ever since I read Release. I was starting to think we’d never get it. But, Aly it was 100000% worth the wait. Yes, this is a stand-alone but I’d really read Release first.
Nora’s mom ran off and left her alone with her brother and their drunk, abusive father. They pick up jobs and save their money so they can have food in their stomachs and hope their dad doesn’t find the food and eat it himself.
Nora found a job for the summer. She will collect worms everyday and turn them in to her neighbor and she’s hoping & praying she can make enough to be able to save money for her and Ramsey.
The first day down at the creek she meets Camden Cole. The minute she sees his clothes, his penny loafers and bucket of worms Nora instantly doesn’t like him and she lets him know about it lol.
Camden let’s Nora know that he was hired to collect worms and has come up with a plan to collect worms and enjoy his summer and he wants them to partner up.
At first Nora hate’s Camden Freaking Cole but they become best friends that summer. Everyday sneaking a ten dollar bill back-n-forth between them lol.
Neither one of them want the summer to end bc the Camden has to go home. Then they’ll both go back to being alone. The last night they were supposed to hang out before he left Nora spent all night waiting for him at the Creek and he never showed up.
Camden never wanted to leave Nora. When he got in trouble and had to leave early it killed him. He spent the whole school year doing anything he could to get on his dads good side in order for him to agree to let Camden go to his grandparents house for the summer.
Camden ran to the creek the minute he got back. Camden knew he got taller this past year but Nora didn’t look the same. She was even more beautiful them last summer and still just as angry and feisty.
Just as Camden started thawing Nora’s cold shoulder and they agreed to meet back up but it never happened. Nora stopped coming to the creek.
Camden thought Nora’s father did something but it was worse then Camden ever would’ve guessed. Both of their lives were changed that summer.
These two went a decade of coming in and out of each other’s lives when they needed each other. It never mattered how much time spent apart they picked up right where they left off.
They were madly in love with each other. But, time was never in their favor.
Nora wanted to be the perfect girl for Camden. She keeps trying to be. Camden just wanted Nora for Nora. While she was working to improve herself, Camden will continue supporting her the best he can and go to school and make something of himself and help those who need it.
This book was everything I’d ever could’ve hoped for and more!!! Aly hit another grand slam in my opinion and I’m looking forward to her next release.
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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.”
About Aly
Originally from Savannah, Georgia, USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez now lives in South Carolina with her husband and four young children.
Never one to take herself too seriously, she enjoys cheap wine, mystery leggings, and olives. It should be known, however, that she hates pizza and ice cream, almost as much as writing her bio in the third person.
She passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a super-sized tumbler of wine by her side.
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