Fighting Solitude is Book Three in the On The Ropes Series by Aly Martinez and is Quarry’s highly anticipated story.
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Blurb
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.
Untouchable in the ring, I destroyed everyone who faced me, but that’s where my victories ended. Outside the ropes, I repeatedly failed the few people who loved me. Including my best friend, Liv James—the one person I’d die to protect.
Even though I didn’t deserve her, Liv never stopped believing in me. Never gave up. Never let go. After all, she understood what I’d lost, because she’d lost it too.
Liv was everything to me, but she was never truly mine.
That was going to change.
I lost my first love, but I refused to lose my soulmate.
Now, I’m on the ropes during the toughest battles of my life.
Fighting to be the man she deserves.
Fighting the solitude of our pasts.
Fighting for her.
Excerpt
Fighting Solitude
Prologue
“Mia!” I shouted.
It was worthless. She’d been deaf since the day I met her.
She’d never once heard my voice.
She’d never heard the deep rumble of my laugh when she was excited, signing so fast I could barely keep up.
She’d never heard my content sigh when she barged into the locker room after a fight—just her presence soothed the lingering madness brewing within me.
She’d never heard me whispering my deepest fears into her ear as she fell asleep on top of me.
She’d never heard the reverence in which I cried her name each and every time I took her body.
And she’d never once heard the ease in which the words I love you tumbled from my lips as I stared into her deep, jade green eyes.
But as I screamed her name while watching her petite body seizing in the passenger seat beside me, I’d never needed her to hear me more.
“Mia. Oh God. I’ve got you, baby.”
She was still thrashing violently as I made my way around to her door, yanking it open while pleading with whatever god was willing to help.
When she stilled, a whole new level of silence filled the air around us. It wasn’t the absence of sound.
It was the absence of life.
“Mia, breathe!” I roared as her chest remained agonizingly still. “Help me!” I screamed at the closed emergency room doors, but no medical savior rushed out with the miracle I so desperately needed.
My hands shook wildly as I released her lifeless body from the seatbelt.
“I’ve got you, just hang on. Please just hang on, Mia,” I whispered lifting her into my arms and sprinting through the sliding doors. “I need a doctor! She’s not breathing!”
Nurses rushed towards me in slow motion as the seconds without air in her lungs passed at a terrifying speed.
Breathe.
A doctor appeared with a gurney and quickly took her from my arms.
The immediate loss was staggering.
Hope became my only solace.
She needed help that I wasn’t capable of giving her, but that didn’t stop me from following close behind as they rolled her away. I was on the verge of self-destructing; letting her out of my sight wasn’t an option.
I stood motionless in the doorway while doctors and nurses swarmed around her. Their mouths moved frantically, but without my hearing aids I was worthless to make out the words their faint voices carried.
I never wore my hearing aids when I was with Mia. There was no point. She rarely spoke with her voice.
We’d spent four years building a relationship with our hands.
Those hands had told me animated stories that made me laugh until my face hurt from smiling.
They’d fought with me relentlessly, but always ended the night raking down my back in silent ecstasy.
Her fingers had fluidly signed I love you more times than I could ever count—or forget.
But as I felt the nurse attempting to physically remove me from the room, my eyes became fixated on her limp hand dangling off the side of the bed. It was the only sight more frightening than watching her flail mid-seizure.
It ripped the heart straight from my chest.
That hand was supposed to be full of life.
It was the very essence of Mia.
Pale.
White.
Still.
Oh God.
Sucking in a deep breath, I held it until the room began to spin.
It provided me no relief even as it forced me to my knees.
There would be no distraction from this.
I was going to lose her.
Yet another woman I couldn’t save.
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About the Author
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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Fighting Solitude by Aly MartinezMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I’m not quite sure where to being other than with saying that Aly Martinez has outdone herself in the best of ways. With every new release of this author’s work I am left speechless. The way this author brings the story and characters to life is just spellbinding. Fighting Solitude is easily, hands down one of the best books I have read in a long time, probably since Aly released her last book and it has definitely become one of my top favorite books of all time. I feel like I could read this book over and over again and never get tired of it, these characters and their story are addicting, and I don’t want to give them up. I hope that in some way, some how Aly writes more of Quarry for us in the future, and not only Quarry but all of the Page brothers because they are hands down some of my favorite book boyfriends. I am somewhat heartbroken that the series has come to an end, I wish there was ten more Page brothers we could read about.
Fighting Solitude is a story of that epic once in a lifetime kind of love. Quarry and Liv are soul mates, that’s clear but their road to togetherness is anything but easy. There is no way you could read this book and not feel. There is so much heartache and loss in this book that seriously wanted to cry quite a few times. I wanted to cry for lost innocence, lost love, lost friendship, and life taken away too soon. Aly writes these emotions so well that you will really feel them deep within yourself. And even though this book deals with a lot of heavy emotions it is undeniably beautifully written. Liv and Quarry do get their happily ever after. Reading this book will leave you with one of the biggest book hangovers ever and biggest smiles on your face. I fully invested myself in this story, as I got blissfully lost in its pages.
Quarry and Liv meet at a young age, it’s clear that they are “in love” with each other though because of their age it’s more an innocent yet still an all encompassing kind of love.
“When I was twelve, I fell in love with Quarry Page. And not the kind of love that had me doodling his name in hearts on every notebook I owned. I’m talking the kind of love that seeps into the marrow of your bones and becomes part of your very being.” ~I love these lines, Aly you are incredible.
Q deals with some really heavy personal issues, which make him afraid; afraid he will fail the one person who he cares about more than anyone else in the world and because of that he pushes Liv away. For a few different reasons Quarry and Liv end up becoming distant from one another and that is when he starts dating Mia. I’m chopping through the storyline here but Mia, Quarry, and Liv end up becoming like the three musketeers. Mia broke my heart for two reasons, the first being that she even existed as a character in the first place and then the second reason being that she was a liar and all of a sudden she was gone and her loss was immense. Mia’s death caused both Quarry and Liv a lot of heartache. As they deal with Mia’s death they realize that the feelings they’ve had for one another never really ever went away but Liv struggles with the idea of being with Quarry because she feels like she is betraying Mia’s memory. “He was my best friend. Our lives were braided together in every possible way. Where else would I go when the only place I ever wanted to be was with him?”~ Oh Liv, honey you can’t deny your heart! It takes a lot of convincing by Quarry for Liv to admit that they belong together, that their love existed long before Mia came into the picture. Eventually Liv caves and stops denying her feelings “ “Every.Single.Day.” Fourteen years. Fourteen years she had experienced the torture I had been living for the last four months. I couldn’t imagine how she had lasted that long.” Could you imagine loving someone for that long and not being able to act on it because life got in the way? Every. Single. Day., those words probably make up one of my favorite lines from the book. I have highlighted probably 500 passages in this book, I just love everything about it. My absolute favorite part of the book is the entire Chapter 29 . Quarry was 13 when he knew Liv was the one for him and though their road to happiness was rocky ;) they do get their well deserved happy ending and it is a beautiful and happy, smile evoking, heartwarming ending.
Quarry is everything you’d want in a book boyfriend, he is loyal, caring, protective, and sexy as hell! Liv is an awesome heroine, she is sassy, tough, and loyal almost to a fault. I really loved Quarry and Liv together. The storyline is original and well written. Fans of the series will be happy to know that all of the previous characters make appearances in this book as well. 5 stars to this epic one of a kind love story.
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