I may have carried her out of that fire, but the truth was, Bree saved me.
From The Embers, an all-new not-to-be-missed, standalone catastrophic romance from USA Today bestselling author Aly Martinez is available now!
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.
But carved into my soul for the rest of my days would be the earth-shattering realization that the woman in my arms wasn’t my wife.
Bree and I were the only survivors—not that either of us were truly living after that night. As a single dad with nowhere else to go, I moved into her guest house. And somehow, through the guilt and grief, we forged an unlikely team.
It took years, but I watched the gradual return of her smile—slow and life-altering.
The two of us could sit outside for hours, talking about nothing, and it filled the massive hole in my chest with new life.
I may have carried her out of that fire, but the truth was, Bree saved me.
As we healed, the secrets and lies of the past smoldered in the ashes, threatening to ignite again.
Our love was born from the embers, and together we would go up in flames.
Aly Martinez I’ve been waiting forever for you to release your next book. From the Embers was 1000% worth the wait!!
Eason is married to Jessica and they have a daughter. Bree is married to Robert and they have two kid’s, a son and daughter. They’re all friend’s. Bree and Jessica have been best friend’s their whole lives. Eason and Rob have been best friend’s since college. They’ve all been thru a lot together. Eason is a singer/songwriter. Thing’s haven’t gone the way he’d hoped. He’s struggling to stay afloat and his marriage is def struggling to survive. Bree’s a stay at home mom. Rob took over as CEO of the company she created and they were happy. They all hung out and got along great. Well, most of them. Bree is Jess’s best friend so she hears everything and she thinks her best friend can do better than Eason. No matter how many time’s Rob tells her he’s the best.
One night they get a babysitter to watch the kid’s at Robert & Bree’s house while they hang out at Eason & Jessica’s house.
One minute the four of them are hanging out and the next boom the house explodes.
Eason is the only one standing after the explosion. He see’s Jessica first and pick’s her up and then he sees Bree and he promises her he’ll be back.
When they get outside Eason realizes he wasn’t carrying his wife but he was carrying Bree. Together they watch his house burn with their loves in it.
Both Bree and Eason are distraught at loosing their husband and wife as well as loosing their best friend. Other then their kid’s they’re all alone. Bree and Eason sit down and come up with an arrangement that’ll be good for their kid’s as well as themselves. Eason and his daughter move into Bree’s pool house. During the day while Bree goes back to working as the CEO of her company, Eason will watch their 3 kid’s. At nighttime Bree is on kid duty and Eason will work on his music.
For a year Bree and Eason worked together taking care of their children day and night. Thing’s definitely got better between Eason and Bree. They went from being frenemies to becoming best friend’s. With everything going on they wouldn’t of survived without each other. They both start feeling thing’s they’re not sure how to feel about it. They’re not sure if the other one is feeling the same thing’s or is it just them.
But before they can make sense is what they’re feeling thing’s get ripped apart at the seems for a second time for them. They realize that Robert and Jessica were hiding something from them. And, they def weren’t ever thinking this was something that was ever possible of happening. It def made them think twice about what they were going to do with their feeling’s about each other.
I read this book in one afternoon/evening. I’m a huge Aly Martinez fan. Ever since book one. I don’t have to ran a blurb for it to go on my TBR list.
This book was no different!! It has every emotion I had. I’m so glad Aly wrote this. She made me go from not liking Bree to liking her a lot. I always like Eason. In the beginning I knew he was a good but didn’t have it easy. I was glad he had Rob in his corner. But, man Aly has a way of making character’s go from a favorite to not one from not fav to favorite. I’m excited to read her next release.
Be consumed by the fire, today!
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Excerpt
Using my arm to block my face, I carried her lifeless body to the door. The knob seared my palm as I yanked it open, but the pain didn’t even register through the adrenaline. The sound of my feet pounding down the driveway echoed in my ears as the fire crackled behind me. Our closest neighbor was over half a mile away, but there was no way they hadn’t heard the explosion. The fire department would be there soon.
Once I got Jessica safe, I’d go back for Bree. They’d find Rob. Everyone would be okay.
“Eason,” she croaked in my arms.
My feet were still moving as I sprinted away, but time stopped as her voice permeated my senses.
It wasn’t possible.
She was covered in soot, and my eyes were caked with ash and what I would later learn to be blood, but I could still make out the large flowers on her yellow—
“Uh, no. It’s my dress that your wife borrowed and I had to do an entire Tom Cruise Mission Impossible thing to get it back last week.”
Oh, God.
I kept running until the wind changed direction, clearing the smoke. With my heart in my throat, I prayed that my still ringing ears had deceived me. I set her down and used the inside of my shirt to clear my face.
“Eason,” she croaked.
But once again, she wasn’t my wife.
“Oh, God,” I breathed, watching as she rose on unsteady legs. Tears carved twin riverbeds through the ash on her cheeks.
“What happened?” Bree asked, her green eyes focused on the blazing inferno behind me.
Acrid guilt devoured me. “I…”
I saved the wrong woman.
I left the mother of my child in a burning building.
My final broken promise to the woman I’d vowed forever to was, “I’ll be right back.”
Bile crawled up my throat. “I don’t know.”
I glanced back at the house, the heat of the roaring fire scorching me even from yards away. Overwhelming grief hit me as I realized there was no way I could get back through those flames.
Oh, God. Jessica.
In the middle of tragedy, it’s strange the things that become engrained into your memories. Years later, I wouldn’t be able to tell you how long it took the firetrucks to get there. I couldn’t tell you what time it was or what I had been wearing. But I would never be able to forget the absolute devastation on Bree’s face when she realized we were the only two standing outside the burning house.
“Where’s Rob?” she rasped, her voice sounding like it had traveled over a mile of gravel before exiting her throat. “And Jessica. Where are they?” She took an urgent stride toward me.
“I tried…” I doubled over into a fit of coughing. It was probably for the best. There was no way I could have finished that thought.
About Aly Martinez
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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