Into the Blue

AJ Graves wants to write comedy. In the summer of 2000 she is working at her family's video rental store in a small Massachusetts town, where she meets Noah Drew, who comes from a famous acting family. Noah's great-aunt Eudora Drew, his acting mentor, guides the pair, and an unspoken bond forms between them.

Then Noah disappears without any explanation. AJ is left behind to make a life and a career on her own, and the book follows her through the years that come after.

Seven years later, the two meet again on a television set in New York. The reunion forces them to face the secret that drove them apart, and the question of what they owe each other after so long.

This is a love story that spans a decade, moving between the early summer romance and the later, more guarded reunion. The setting shifts from a video store to the worlds of comedy writing and television, so the tone mixes the warmth of first love with the ache of a loss left unexplained. It suits readers who like a romance built on time, ambition and a long-buried secret.

The book is the author's follow-up to Songs in Ursa Major, and it is a Reese's Book Club pick.