‘The Future Saints’ Is On the Way (Exclusive)

Crank up the tunes: a brand new heartfelt music novel is on the way in which!

Perfect for followers of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones & The Six, The Future Saints by Ashley Winstead follows the titular band, its lead singer and a report firm government as they search to regain their place within the highlight. Set to hit cabinets in January 2026, The Future Saints explores themes of womanhood, fame and sudden love, within the midst of a transferring arc of redemption.

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After the dying of their beloved supervisor, The Future Saints is “in a downward spiral,” performing gigs at dive bars. When report government Theo is shipped to encourage the band to create a success album, he hatches a plan during which they’ll all win — that includes the lead singer Hannah’s daring (however fashionable) new sound. But Hannah’s grief is looming over the band and its future.

“The Future Saints is a ebook in regards to the eternal bond of sisterhood, the magic of creating music, the battle to be taken severely as a girl, particularly as an artist. It’s about fame, friendship, the sweetness and pitfalls of recent fandom and complicated pleasure of falling deeply, irrevocably in love with the final particular person you anticipate, within the final time of your life you anticipate,” Winstead tells PEOPLE in an unique assertion. “But most of all, it’s about clawing your self out of the darkness again into the sunshine of hope.”

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Winstead latched onto the concept of a personality “rocked by grief” — Hannah, who thought of the band’s supervisor to be the one particular person she cherished most. The creator was drawn to the theme on intuition, after her father died of a coronary heart assault whereas she was drafting the manuscript.

As she herself grappled with grief, Winstead returned to her ebook with “this new perspective on loss,” in a position to join with the characters on a deeper degree than earlier than.

“That’s once I understood what The Future Saints wanted to be: not a tragedy, however a ebook in regards to the unbelievable human intuition to persist, to proceed loving different folks though we all know the way it will finish. That as mortals, our lives and loves have an expiration date,” she says.

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The Future Saints hits cabinets on Jan. 20, 2026 and is on the market now for preorder, wherever books are bought.