Into the Blue A Love Story
by Emma Brodie
more Romance →Brodie's follow-up to Songs in Ursa Major was Reese Witherspoon's April book club pick and the debut title for Jenna Bush Hager's Thousand Voices imprint, that's a lot of attention for a sophomore novel. The decade-spanning, dual-timeline structure (summer 2000, then seven years later) is the book's biggest strength and its risk: critics have noted the back half leans into repeated breakups and reconciliations that can feel melodramatic if you're not fully invested in AJ and Noah by then.
why track this in moth
The story jumps years between its two timelines, so it's easy to lose the thread of what's changed between AJ and Noah. Saving quotes and notes in Moth as you read each timeline makes it easier to track what carries over.
Book facts
- Genre
- Literature & Fiction, Literary, Genre Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Women's Fiction
- Publisher
- Random House
- Published
- July 14, 2026
- Pages
- 448
- Reading time
- 8 hr 54 min · ~21 nights at 25 min/day in Moth
- ISBN
- 9798217093700
- Language
- en
Publisher's summary
AN ASTONISHING LOVE STORY FROM JENNA BUSH HAGER’S NEW VENTURE, THOUSAND VOICES From the award-winning author of Songs in Ursa Major comes an epic, decade-spanning love story that blazes through the worlds of acting and comedy, and charts a connection so powerful it might just break space and time itself.
In the summer of 2000, AJ Graves dreams of writing for SNL; instead, she’s stuck working in a video rental store, with slim odds of escaping her Massachusetts small town and large family. Then in walks Noah Drew, the enigmatic and intense scion of the Drew acting dynasty, and her life changes forever. Despite wildly different upbringings, the two forge a deep, cosmic bond first as friends, then as acting partners, until one day, Noah disappears without a word.
Seven years later in New York City, AJ is shocked to find herself cast in the same intergalactic TV production as Noah, by then a well-known Hollywood heartthrob. As their on-screen characters grow closer every day, the lines between reality and acting begin to blur. Unable to stay away from each other, AJ and Noah are forced to confront the truth of what happened years ago, and the devastating secret that will send their lives careening apart, even as fate continues to draw them together.
Blending unforgettable characters, explosive chemistry, and devastating emotion, Into the Blue is a journey unlike any other, one that asks: What does it mean to diverge from the script to forge your own story?
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