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We Burned So Bright

TJ Klune

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English
St Martins/Tor
28 April 2026
We Burned So Bright is the heartfelt, queer, road trip of a novel from TJ Klune, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Cerulean Chronicles and The Bones Beneath My Skin

Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good, long life. Together, they've experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the world.

Now, the world is ending for real. A wandering black hole is coming for Earth, and in a month, everything and everyone they've ever known will be gone.

Suddenly, after forty years together, Don and Rodney are out of time. They're in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business before it's all over.

On the road, they meet those who refuse to believe death is coming and those who rush to meet it. But there are also people living their final days as best they know how - impromptu weddings, bright burning bonfires, shared meals, new friends.

And as the black hole draws near, among ball lightning and under a cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky, Don and Rodney will look back on their lives and ask if their best was good enough.

Is it enough to burn bright if nothing comes from the ashes?

Praise for TJ Klune

'An enchanting sequel about found family' - The New York Times on Somewhere Beyond the Sea

'Like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket' - V. E. Schwab, author of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, on The House in the Cerulean Sea
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Imprint:   St Martins/Tor
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   184g
ISBN:   9781035009435
ISBN 10:   1035009439
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

TJ Klune is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, Somewhere Beyond the Sea, the Green Creek series for adults, the Extraordinaries series for teens and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it's important - now more than ever - to have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.

Reviews for We Burned So Bright

An evocative rumination on mortality . . . brittle, elegiac, ironic, lit up with flashes of humour * Financial Times * It would be no exaggeration to call this bold and unflinching book the ultimate road trip . . . Terrible and beautiful, haunting and humane: a masterpiece in miniature -- <i>Daily Mail</i> I loved it. It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Simply perfect -- V. E. Schwab, author of the Shades of Magic series on <i>The House in the Cerulean Sea</i> A modern fairy-tale about learning your true nature and what you love and will protect. It’s a beautiful book -- Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series that inspired HBO's <i>True Blood, </i>on <i>The House in the Cerulean Sea</i> Full of faith in the goodness of people . . . It broke my heart with its unflinching understanding that grief never goes away, never empties, only settles into the room of your soul like a strange souvenir -- Cassandra Khaw, author of <i>The Library at Hellebore </i>on <i>Under the Whispering Door</i> A witty, wholesome fantasy that’s likely to cause heart-swelling -- <i>The Washington Post </i>on <i>The House in the Cerulean Sea</i> TJ Klune is a master storyteller * The Mary Sue *


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