A new love story from the best-selling author of AFTER. Packed with Anna Todd’s trademark tension, THE FALLING is page-turning slow-burn romance at its best.Twenty-year-old Karina is proud of the independent life she has created for herself in Fort Benning, Georgia. And like anyone who has grown up around an army base, Karina knows the background noise that follows men and women home from war.
When she meets Kael, a handsome soldier on the cusp of discharge, she’s immediately intrigued by his brooding presence and enigmatic silence. As their unexpected friendship turns into something more, Karina tries to piece together Kael’s story: he is emotionally closed off, recovering from wounds and other trauma in the aftermath of two deployments in Afghanistan.
Karina considers herself a fixer of broken things and has a strong desire to help Kael heal. She has an equally strong desire to trust him—even though it challenges her many insecurities and anxieties. But trust is fragile, and when it is broken, Karina and Kael find their relationship at an impossible crossroads.
THE BURNING, the second book in The Brightest Stars trilogy, arrives summer 2023.
“Anna Todd has done it again! With bold storytelling and deep compassion for her characters, no one delivers an emotionally satisfying read filled with vulnerability, desire, and dreams quite like Anna Todd. She’s my go-to for a story I know I’ll love and characters who live in the heart long after the last page is turned. – Colleen Hoover, NYT best-selling author of It Ends With Us
ANNA TODD (author/writer/producer) is the
New York Times bestselling author of the After series. Always an avid reader, Todd began writing stories on her phone through Wattpad, the reading and writing multiplatform for original stories, with After becoming its most-read series with over 1.95 billion reads. She has been hailed by
Cosmopolitan as “the biggest literary phenomenon of her generation.” The print edition of After was published in 2014 and has since been released in over 35 languages with more than 12 million copies sold worldwide. After is a #1 bestseller in countries across the globe including Italy, Germany, France and Spain. Since the release of After, Todd has gone on to write eight additional novels and served as producer and screenwriter on the film adaptations of
After and
After We Collided. A native of Ohio, Anna Todd lives with her family in Los Angeles.
