"Raw. Heartbreaking. Fierce. The Future Saints had me by the jugular."
April 13, 2024. Theo Ford watches a woman haunt the stage of a rundown California bar, a bottle of tequila in one hand and a guitar in the other. The crowd is small, fifty or so West Coast hipsters - but the devotion is palpable. She’s transfixing. Six years into their career, The Future Saints should be headlining arenas, not playing to near-empty rooms.
But their new sound isn’t landing, their lives are unravelling, and the promise that once made them Manifest Records’ next big thing is flickering out.
Enter Theo, the label’s artist relations manager, a fixer with a specialisation in disaster. He’s the one sent to deal with bands that are burning out. The Grim Reaper. And Hannah Cortland, The Saints’ lead singer is a wildfire. Bruised, brilliant, and heartbreakingly self-destructive, she’s everything Theo has been warned to avoid. And everything he can’t look away from.
Told through a collage of perspectives: Hannah’s raw, intimate voice; Theo’s measured recollections; and a myriad of social media posts, interview snippets, and magazine features, The Future Saints captures the rise, fall, and reinvention of a band searching for meaning through music, grief, and love.
At its core, this is the story of sisterhood and loss. Virginia Cortland, Hannah’s sister, went for a swim one day and never came home. Her absence defines every act that follows. Every decision. Yet to call this a book about grief is to misunderstand it. It’s not about death. it’s about resurrection. It’s about hope. It’s about making something beautiful out of pain and showing the people we’ve lost how deeply they were loved.
It’s visceral and electric: the sound of a band finding itself again. Of Theo and Hannah finding something, too. Love, maybe, or redemption, or both.
By the time Grammy buzz builds and Saturday Night Live comes calling, it’s impossible not to feel the ache of everything they’ve survived to get there. The Suit and The Creative. The order and the chaos. Two people from different worlds bound together by music, by sound, by fury, and longing.
The Future Saints is a gut punch of a page-turner. It grabbed me and wouldn’t let me go. A novel about music, fame, and the messy, glorious business of being alive. It hums with the rhythm of heartbreak and the defiance of hope, and I bloody loved it.
"Almost Famous step aside: the new golden gods of rock have arrived." --Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author
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Hope and healing found within the darkest depths of grief, The Future Saints is a cry of pain yet also an exultation in the release of letting go.
Theo Ford is the one they call at Manifest Records when things go wrong, and when he’s sent to The Future Saints, they’re in turmoil. Lead singer Hannah Cortland is drowning in grief, her pain flowing out of her into the lyrics of new songs, completely different from their old style. But mixed with their attention grabbing antics they’re generating more buzz than ever. She’s a bright star at risk of going supernova, and now the whole world is watching with cameras in their hands.
We get a backstage pass to the whirlwind ride of The Saints, seeing Hannah’s grief play out, and Theo awestruck from the side of the stage, dragged into their current as he becomes more and more bewitched by the lead singer.... Read Full Review
The best love stories are the ones you don't expect. When ambitious record executive Theo meets the Future Saints, they're bombing at a dive bar in their hometown.
The Future Saints features in the following genres: Star Books, Romance / Relationship Stories, Fiction, Modern and Contemporary romance, Dark romance, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Fiction
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The Future Saints was written by Ashley Winstead and published by Atria Books
The Future Saints has 352 pages
