Never Break the Chain

Two years after the death of his music-writer father, Believe in Me protagonist Tim Green sets off on an obsessive quest through Los Angeles’ rock and roll underworld to track down the mother who deserted him almost three decades before—a quest he hasn’t mentioned to his mercurial new boss Blake Saunders, who’s just hired Tim to pen a biography of his floundering, past-their-prime arena rock band Empire. As Tim delves into the band’s tangled history and troubled present, he bonds with Saunders’ teenaged son Mal—newly installed as Empire’s lead singer—and daughter Jane, all the while working behind the scenes to retrace his mother’s footsteps through the years and cities and clubs. As momentum builds toward a cathartic confrontation, Never Break the Chain reveals itself as a story about families—the ones we’re born into, and the ones we create.