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Silence to your TBR list on
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Release Date:
February 2015
Blurb
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. But what if, when the clarity fades into silence, it's
the obscure background noise that you would give anything to hold on to?
I've always been a fighter. With parents who barely
managed to stay out of jail and two little brothers who narrowly avoided foster
care, I became skilled at dodging the punches life threw at me. Growing up, I
didn’t have anything I could call my own, but from the moment I met Eliza
Reynolds, she was always mine. I became utterly addicted to her and the
escape from reality we provided each other. Throughout the years, she had
boyfriends and I had girlfriends, but there wasn't a single night that I didn’t
hear her voice.
You see, meeting the love of my life at age thirteen was
never part of my plan. However, neither was gradually going deaf at the age of
twenty-one.
They both happened anyway.
Now, I'm on the ropes during the toughest battles of my
life.
Fighting for my career.
Fighting the impending silence.
Fighting for her.
Every night, just before falling asleep,
she sighs as a final conscious breath leaves her.
I think that's the sound I'll miss the
most.
Excerpt
"That wasn't yours to take away," he exploded
into the otherwise silent night. His words echoed off the surrounding
buildings, each wave slicing me to the quick all over again. "That was our place. Not yours." His voice
cracked right alongside my heart.
"Yeah, well, there was a lot of stuff that wasn't
yours to take either." I held his gaze, desperately trying to be strong,
but as his eyes grew wide, I whimpered.
His long legs strode forward, stopping only inches away
from me. He was crowding me, but he still leaned in closer to my face.
"There is nothing in this world that was ever more mine than you," he
stated. Though it was the absolute truth, I wished with all my heart that it
were a lie.
"Till," I cried, swiping the tears from my eyes.
"Why!" he shouted, causing his muscles to tense
under the force. "Goddamn it! I needed that place."
Porch lights flashed on from the surrounding apartments,
illuminating not only the dark but also my rage.
I shoved my hands into his chest. "What about what I
needed? You left! I waited in that fucking apartment for weeks."
He didn't budge, but my bare feet slipped, sending me
toward the ground. Impossibly fast, Till's hand snaked out and caught my arm. I
didn't let his chivalrous gesture douse my fire. I had six months’ worth of
words to say to the man I was irrevocably in love with.
"You took what you wanted. Then you left me."
"Doodle," he whispered.
I had been perilously close to the edge of insanity, and
with one single word, he’d pushed me over.
I lost it completely.
Pounding my fists against his chest, I screamed at the top
of my lungs, "It's Eliza! My name is fucking Eliza! Not Doodle!" I
spun to march away, but Till's arms folded around me, lifting me off my feet to
restrain me.
I was miniscule compared to him. There was no use in
fighting, but I still kicked my legs, irrationally desperate to get away from
him—but only because I knew I couldn't keep him for forever.
"Stop it!" he growled into my ear. "I know
your Goddamn name—probably better than I know my own."
About the Author
Aly Martinez
Born and raised in
Savannah, Georgia, Aly Martinez is a stay-at-home mom to four crazy kids under
the age of five, including a set of twins. Currently living in South Carolina,
she passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she
can get her hands on, preferably with a glass of wine at her side.
After some encouragement
from her friends, Aly decided to add “Author” to her ever-growing list of job
titles. Five books later, she shows no signs of slowing. So grab a glass of
Chardonnay, or a bottle if you’re hanging out with Aly, and join her aboard the
crazy train she calls life.
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