Aly Martinez

My name was Dr. Erica Hill. I was a victim, then a witness, and then I ceased to exist altogether....

The world owes you nothing. It took losing the woman I loved, and facing the paralyzing task of moving on without her, for me to truly understand that. I’d resigned myself to a life of loneliness, until a survivor from the same plane crash that took my fiancée stormed into my life....

When I was eight years old, Caven Hunt saved me from the worst kind of evil to walk the Earth. It didn’t matter that I was a kid. I fell in love with him all the same. But that was where my fairy tale ended....

I fell in love with Manda Baker eight years ago, and I loved her to the core of her soul. We were supposed to have that elusive happily ever after and spend a lifetime together....

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....

I proposed on our first date. She laughed and told me I was insane. Less than a day later, she said yes. It was a whirlwind, but we were happy. Until we got greedy and wanted a family....

Technically, you aren't supposed to fall in love with your best friend's girl. But if we're talking technicalities, he wasn't supposed to be cheating on her every other weekend, either....

Death had been chasing me my entire life. I survived the horrors of war, but it was the aftermath that truly destroyed me. People called me a recluse, but the only time I didn’t feel like I was suffocating was inside that house.

Once upon a time, Caven Hunt saved my life. We were only kids, but the trauma of that day destroyed us both. Years later, he didn't recognize me when a one-night stand unexpectedly reconnected us.

When I was 15, a single bullet changed my life. I spent the next decade building an empire that would shield me from whatever life could throw at me. But all the money in the world couldn’t help me when I found a screaming newborn abandoned on my doorstep....

I met Sarah Kate Erickson when I was 21 years old. I was lucky enough to keep her for seven years before a tragic accident stole her from me....

Bree and Eason survive the fire that takes their partners - but neither of them are truly living after that fateful night....

I come from a family of fighters. I always thought I'd follow in their shadows, becoming unstoppable in the ring....

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....

That was all it took for me to know Elisabeth was my soul mate. Five years, countless infertility treatments, and the loss of our only son. That was what it took for me to lose her....

One story. Two couples. I fell in love with a man who didn't exist. What started out as romance ended in hell....

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never harm me. Lies. Words destroyed me. "I'm sorry. She didn't make it." "Daddy, he can't breathe!"....

Consumed by hate and rage, I spent four years running from my memories - until a shattered woman gave me a reason to stop. Cora lived in a nightmare, but through sheer force of will, she’d turned it into something beautiful....

Truth: Penn Walker entered my life like a summer storm - dark, ominous, and filled with thunder. After witnessing my husband's murder, I didn't have much of a heart left to offer a man. But Penn took it all....

Seven years ago, my life changed forever. One accident and the person I saw in the mirror no longer resembled the woman I used to be....