Into the Blue

Summer 2000, and seventeen-year-old AJ is working in a small-town video rental shop, dreaming of becoming a writer far away. Her life changes when Noah walks in: intense, guarded and the youngest in a family of celebrated actors. Despite very different upbringings, they build a deep bond as friends, then as acting partners, until the day Noah disappears without a word.

Seven years later, AJ is cast in an intergalactic TV production in New York and discovers that Noah, now a Hollywood heartthrob, is in the same show. As their characters grow closer on set, the line between performance and feeling starts to blur. Emma Brodie writes longing with real heat, and the novel is full of affection for theatre and sci-fi geekery. It is a story for anyone who still thinks about their first great love.