On the morning of September 11, 2001, Zelda finds the man she's spent six years trying to forget — and loses him again hours later. Now she's searching the wreckage for two people: her best friend, and the one she never stopped loving.

Zelda and her best friend Charlie have been trying to escape Philadelphia for as long as they can remember. Ari was never part of that plan – until he walked into the pawn shop where Zelda worked and refused to leave her alone.

They fell in love too young. They fell apart too fast.

Six years later, September 11th puts them face to face on a Manhattan street, hours before the world changes forever.

When the towers fall, Zelda survives and realizes Charlie and Ari were both inside and are missing.

She has to find them both.

Blue Sky Black moves between Zelda's desperate search through the wreckage of September 11th and the years that made her: a lonely, furious girl learning the value of things in a back-room pawn shop, falling in love for the first time, and losing everything she wasn't ready to hold.

Perfect for readers who love: Second chance romance · Slow burn with heat · Dual timeline · Found family · Female ambition · Emotionally devastating love stories

Steam: Open-door emotionally driven intimacy with explicit detail

Content note: Depictions of September 11, 2001; grief, loss, ambiguity and survival.