Aly Martinez Books in Order
Explore Aly Martinez books in order, with short summaries, series background, and easy starting points for her emotional romance and suspense.
Last updated: July 14, 2026
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Aly Martinez books in publication order
31 books
Among the Echoes
by Aly Martinez
2014
Dr. Erica Hill is living under a false name after becoming both victim and witness. Celebrity boxer Slate Andrews wants to keep her safe, but his fame makes hiding harder and her past refuses to stay buried.
Broken Course
by Aly Martinez
2014
Years after the accident that changed her life, Sarah is still consumed by guilt and disconnected from herself. Leo James understands brokenness, but old secrets could ruin their chance to build something new.
Changing Course
by Aly Martinez
2014
Four years after an accident changes Sarah beyond recognition, Brett is still caring for the woman he once loved. Barista Jesse helps him imagine a future, but Sarah and Brett's guilt will not let go easily.
Savor Me
by Aly Martinez
2014
Lacey has never believed one man should be enough, until she meets confident Hunter Coy and his quiet friend Mason Wynn. Their no-strings arrangement quickly becomes a complicated choice between desire, friendship, and real love.
Stolen Course
by Aly Martinez
2014
Caleb believes Sarah Erickson caused the death of his fiancée and plans to make her pay. Falling for Sarah's sister Emma complicates his revenge, especially when the truth proves far more devastating than expected.
Fighting Shadows
by Aly Martinez
2015
After saving a woman he loved leaves him paralyzed, Flint's future feels like a nightmare. Ash brings laughter into his life, but their pasts and her instinct to run make love another hard fight.
Fighting Silence
by Aly Martinez
2015
Till has always fought for his brothers, his career, and his lifelong bond with Eliza. When he begins losing his hearing, the fighter must face an uncertain future and the sound he fears losing most.
The Fall Up
by Aly Martinez
2015
A celebrity who has lost herself in the spotlight meets Sam Rivers on a bridge during the worst night of both their lives. Their shared secrets draw them together, then threaten to pull them apart.
Fighting Solitude
by Aly Martinez
2016
Fighter Quarry built a life with his fists after being abandoned as a child, but he keeps failing the people he loves. His best friend Liv may be his soulmate, if he can become the man she deserves.
Retrieval
by Aly Martinez
2016
A whirlwind marriage is pushed to breaking point by infertility, financial strain, and the death of a child. When a husband loses the family he thought he knew, he sets out to reclaim what has been taken.
The Spiral Down
by Aly Martinez
2016
Music-industry success has not kept Henry from feeling alone. Meeting Captain Evan Roth, a man he never expected to want, forces both men to face old damage and the possibility of a different life.
Transfer
by Aly Martinez
2016
What began as love becomes a prison for a woman trapped by an abusive man. Determined to protect her daughter, she must find a way to escape the fears and control that have taken over her life.
Singe
by Aly Martinez
2017
Bodyguard Jude has spent four years haunted by a woman he could not save from a fire. Rhion sees the man beneath his guilt, but danger returns and Jude must risk his heart to protect her.
The Brightest Sunset
by Aly Martinez
2017
Porter and Charlotte's fragile new hope is tested by the losses and anger they have kept buried. As the past presses closer, they must decide whether love can survive the darkness that shaped them.
The Darkest Sunrise
by Aly Martinez
2017
Ten years after losing her son, Charlotte Mills still lives in the shadow of grief. Porter Reese offers a startling chance at connection, but both are carrying losses that make hope feel like a dangerous gamble.
Across the Horizon
by Aly Martinez
2018
After discovering her husband's affair, Rita is rescued from public humiliation by celebrity chef Tanner Reese. Their unexpected romance crosses very different lives, but Tanner's world comes with heartbreak as well as heat.
The Truth About Lies
by Aly Martinez
2018
Four years after witnessing his wife's murder from afar, Penn Walker wants a fresh start. Meeting Cora gives him a reason to stop running, but her life is full of danger and neither knows whom to trust.
The Truth About Us
by Aly Martinez
2018
After her husband's murder, Cora has little trust left to give Penn Walker, even as he becomes impossible to resist. Their growing love is tested by hidden truths, danger, and the real identity of the man beside her.
Thrive
by Aly Martinez
2018
Mira chose safety over the soldier she loved at nineteen, and has paid for it ever since. When her dangerous ex threatens her from prison, she calls Lark, now a bodyguard and the man she never stopped loving.
Written with Regret
by Aly Martinez
2019
Caven saved Hadley from abuse when she was a child, but years later she leaves their daughter in his care. Returning means facing the man she loves, the child she misses, and the choices that broke them.
Written with You
by Aly Martinez
2019
Caven built a life to protect himself from his past, until an abandoned newborn made him a father. Four years later, the girl's mother returns, and Caven must choose between guarding his heart and wanting her back.
Reclaim
by Aly Martinez
2020
Nora learned young that trust can be dangerous, but Camden Cole has always made her feel safe. Their friendship grows across years of separation and family secrets, forcing Nora to decide whether she can finally choose love.
Release
by Aly Martinez
2020
Twelve years after Ramsey Stewart goes to prison for killing Thea's attacker, he is released to a life neither recognizes. Their first love survived separation, but guilt, trauma, and resentment still stand between them.
When the Time Is Right
by Aly Martinez
2020
Lex has known her brother's best friend Hudson for fifteen years, but friendship no longer explains what she feels. His son, her old heartbreak, and one reckless bet make their long-simmering connection impossible to ignore.
When the Walls Come Down
by Aly Martinez
2020
Maggie's one-night stand becomes much more complicated when Shane turns out to be her neighbor and the man whose job she was hired to take. Attraction is easy, but their careers make every choice risky.
From the Embers
by Aly Martinez
2021
A house explosion leaves Bree and a widowed father as the only survivors. Living together in the wake of grief, they slowly become each other's refuge, until old lies rise from the ashes.
The Difference Between Somebody and Someone
by Aly Martinez
2022
After a plane crash kills his fiancée, Bowen Michaels expects to live with regret forever. Then fellow survivor Remi Grey brings chaos and hope into his life, until secrets surrounding the crash threaten to tear them apart.
The Difference Between Someday and Forever
by Aly Martinez
2022
Bowen and Remi have survived disaster, grief, and truths that should have destroyed them. With the past still closing in, they must fight for the future they have been denied more than once.
The Difference Between Somehow and Someway
by Aly Martinez
2022
Remi survived the plane crash that changed everything, and falling for guarded Bowen feels like a second chance. But as buried secrets erupt, their hard-won happiness begins to look dangerously temporary.
Alone with You
by Aly Martinez
2024
War survivor Truett West lives as a recluse until his former wife, Gwendolyn Pierce, reopens his neighborhood diner. A film crew digging into his past forces them together and makes a second chance feel possible.
Falter
by Aly Martinez
2026
When a stalker kills actress Lofton Beck's longtime bodyguard, Guardian Protection assigns Devon Grant to keep her safe. Forced into close quarters, the guarded protector and his famous client find danger and attraction rising together.
Where to start with Aly Martinez
For emotional romantic suspense: The Darkest Sunrise → The Brightest Sunset → Across the Horizon
For intense connected romances: Written with Regret → Written with You
For bodyguard suspense: Singe → Thrive → Falter
For fighter romances: Fighting Silence → Fighting Shadows → Fighting Solitude
For a newer standalone: Alone with You
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The Difference Between Somebody and Someone
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Author bio
Aly Martinez is a romance writer from Savannah, Georgia, who now lives in South Carolina with her four children. Her author notes make clear that she prefers a life with room for family, reading, a big tumbler of wine, and the occasional charcuterie board.
She also has a golden retriever she describes as mildly neurotic. It sounds like a busy household.
Martinez began publishing in 2014, starting with Changing Course, the first book in her Wrecked and Ruined series. Those early books introduced a pattern that has stayed with her work: people carrying old grief, complicated connections between families and friends, and romance that has to survive a real mess before it can feel safe.
Her stories tend to put ordinary emotional needs next to high-pressure situations. A boxer is losing his hearing in Fighting Silence. A woman living under a false identity meets a celebrity fighter in Among the Echoes. In The Darkest Sunrise, a mother still grieving her son meets Porter Reese, a man with his own painful history. The characters often have plenty to say, but the hardest things are usually the ones they have kept quiet.
That is where the tension comes from.
Martinez has written connected series, duets, trilogies, and standalones, giving readers several ways into her catalog. The On the Ropes books follow fighters and the people closest to them. Guardian Protection turns toward bodyguards, danger, and second chances. The Retrieval, Truth, and Regret duets lean further into secrets, crime, loss, and relationships tested by the past.
Her books do not avoid heavy subjects. Trauma, grief, violence, illness, family estrangement, and hard-won trust appear often. But the focus stays close to the people living through those things. Readers who enjoy her work often come for the romantic pull, then stay because the couples have to reckon with what happened before the happy ending can mean anything.
There is humor in the mix, too. When the Walls Come Down and When the Time Is Right, co-written romantic comedies, make more room for workplace rivalry, neighbor trouble, teasing, and the awkward timing of falling for someone familiar. Across the Horizon follows a celebrity chef and a woman rebuilding after betrayal. Martinez can shift gears without losing her interest in flawed people trying again.
Her later work continues to explore second chances. Alone with You brings former spouses Truett West and Gwendolyn Pierce back into each other's lives after years apart, while Falter returns to Guardian Protection with a celebrity facing a dangerous stalker and the bodyguard assigned to keep her safe.
At heart, Aly Martinez writes about people who have been changed by life and are not sure how to move forward. Her romances ask them to try anyway.
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