Best Seller We Burned So Bright

A heart-wrenching standalone novel by #1New York Timesbestselling author TJ Klune,We Burned So Brightfollows an elder gay couple on an end-of-the-world road-trip.

The road stretched out before them. No other cars, just the headlights on the blacktop. Above, the cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky.

Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together theyve 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 rogue black hole is coming for Earth and in a month everything and everyone theyve ever known will be gone.

Suddenly, after 40 years together, Don and Rodney are out of time. Theyre in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business before its 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 howimpromptu weddings, bright burning bonfires, shared meals, and 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?

TJ KLUNE is the #1New York Timesand #1USA Todaybestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author ofThe House in the Cerulean Sea,Somewhere Beyond the Sea,Under the Whispering Door,In the Lives of Puppets, the Green Creek Series for adults, the Extraordinaries Series for teens,and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it’s importantnow more than everto have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publish Date: April 28, 2026
• Pages: 176
• Language: English
• Type: Hardback
• EAN/UPC: 9781250881236
• Dimensions: 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W | 1 in T | 1 lb Wt
• BISAC Categories: Fantasy, Literary FictionLGBTQ+