Into the Night and Gone
INTO THE NIGHT AND GONE is a sweeping, emotionally charged novel about friendship, loss, and the choices that follow us long after youth has passed.
In the small town of Cedar Heights, three inseparable friends once believed their lives would unfold side by side. However, a sudden tragedy during their senior year shattered that certainty, sending one of them away, and leaving the others to build lives on foundations that never fully settled.
Years later, when fate draws them back together, old wounds reopen and long-buried truths rise to the surface. Success has come for some. Regret has settled in for others. And beneath it all lingers the question none of them has truly answered: what might have been?
As love, loyalty, betrayal, and illness collide, each must confront the weight of the past, and decide whether reconciliation is still possible. Tender and unflinching, Into the Night and Gone explores enduring friendship, missed chances, and the fragile hope that reconciliation is still possible. It is a story about the love that shapes us, the secrets that haunt us, and the moments that define the rest of our lives.
CHAD LINES is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. He is drawn to character-driven stories about friendship, loss, and the ways people carry the past with them. Into the Night and Gone is his first novel.