We Burned So Bright (2026)

Don and Rodney have shared forty good years of marriage, experiencing the highest highs of love and family as well as lows that felt like the end of the world. Now the world really is ending: a wandering black hole is heading for Earth, and in one month everything and everyone they have ever known will be gone. Suddenly, after forty years together, they are out of time. They race from Maine to Washington State to take care of unfinished business before it is all over. Along the way, they meet people who refuse to believe death is coming, people who hurry to meet it, and others who spend their final days as best they can, with impromptu weddings, bright bonfires, shared meals and new friendships. As the black hole draws near, beneath a cracked moon and across a kaleidoscope sky filled with ball lightning, Don and Rodney look back on their lives and ask whether their best was good enough. This heartfelt queer road-trip novel is by TJ Klune, author of the Cerulean Chronicles and The Bones Beneath My Skin. The book is in English.