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This HaBO is from Ruth, who is trying to find this audiobook series. Content warning for the description below:
I’m driving myself crazy because I can’t remember any information about a 4-book series I listened to on Audible in January. I was on a trial “Romance Unlimited” package and apparently borrowed books aren’t listed in my account. I even mentioned it in a comment I left here, but I have no idea what the comment was to!
Anyway: four-book series, set several years after a car accident in which one woman died and the other had injuries that changed her personality so that, among other things, she no longer loves her husband; she’s also made multiple suicide attempts. The book starts when he meets a new woman and decides it’s time to move on. Unstable now-ex-wife causes all kinds of problems, including a hostage situation that turns out to be fake.
The second book is about the fiance of the woman who died.
The third book is about unrelated people: a woman in witness protection recovering from having been gang raped and the undercover agent who saved her whom she bonded with (not in a romantic way).
The fourth book brings together that undercover agent and the now not-so-unstable wife from the first book.
I remember these books in detail, except for the character’s names, their titles and the author. Apparently I can’t remember those things unless I actually see them!
This sounds like some heavy stuff.
The Wrecked and Ruined Series
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Aly Martinez
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I think thefirst book is CHANGING COURSE by Aly Martinez. Here’s the Amazon blurb:
My world was rocked when my wife suffered a traumatic brain injury during a car accident. One minute, we were planning our happily-ever-after. The next, she could barely stand to look at me.
I was forced to let her go, but I never thought I’d be able to move on.
Until seven years later, when I met Jesse Addison.
That shy woman with the musical laugh became the beacon of light I so desperately needed in order to find my way out of the fog.
But what happens when your past collides with your present and the woman you used to love refuses to accept the woman you can’t live without?
As the requester notes, other books in the series are about people related to the first couple or effected by the same automobile accident. I think of Martinez as less of a romance writer and more of a “women’s/topical fiction” writer, a la Jodi Picout. Very dramatic, HEAs, but hard-won and lots of pain.
The whole series is called Wrecked and Ruined: CHANGING COURSE, STOLEN COURSE, AMONG THE ECHOES, and BROKEN COURSE. Here’s the Amazon link to the whole set:
https://www.amazon.com/Wrecked-Ruined-Box-Set-ebook/dp/B00S5WVUA4/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=aly+martinez+wrecked+and+ruined&qid=1576005471&sr=8-1
I really hope I’m right on this. If so, I think it’s the first time I’ve ever solved a HABO.
@DiscoDollyDeb: Ding ding ding! Ruth confirmed with me that those are indeed the books.
@ Ruth: I’ve found it easier to keep track of the audiobooks I’ve listened to via the Escape Package if I write a short review before deleting the selection from my library. It’s then easy to find the book on my Listener Page (link is under your name on the Audible homepage), since your reviews remain even when the book is gone from your library.
And @DiscoDollyDeb: Way to go!