The Darkest Sunrise

Ten years ago, a woman's life broke apart. A pregnancy, a son's birth, then the news that the boy needed a heart transplant, and finally the words "He's gone." Since then she has gone on living without feeling much of the light she once had.

Then a stranger introduces himself as Porter Reese, and the possibility of connection returns for two people who are each carrying their own losses.

The first book in the Darkest Sunrise Duet, continued in The Brightest Sunset, this is a heavy contemporary romance about grief and the slow, uncertain work of letting someone in. Readers describe it as one of Aly Martinez's saddest books, so expect a lot of loss alongside the love story.