Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato has submitted his next novel to his publisher, though he is keeping the title and most of the details private for now. He has, however, shared some of the ideas he wanted to explore in it.
“I’m less interested in repeating the world of Three Days Grace than in following some of its questions somewhere more dangerous.”
The first book set a high bar for danger. Three Days Grace, published by Indigo River Publishing on 12 May 2026 and distributed by Simon & Schuster, shuts five people inside a Paris hotel for 72 hours. The death of Lynne’s ex-husband, the father of her son Nick, turns a farewell into a reckoning. Kirkus Reviews called the result “a dark, dramatic, and thoughtful reflection on the traumatic aspects of love and family.”
A writer who opened with a book that dark has now told readers the next one goes further.
The questions that carry over
Bradley-Silverio Donato, an American author who has lived in Paris since 2019, describes his next novel as quite different from the first, but also describes a continuity underneath. The same preoccupations run through both books: desire, identity, perception, and the gap between how we see ourselves and how other people see us.
Readers of Three Days Grace will recognise that last gap. The Independent Review of Books wrote that the novel welcomes readers “into each of these characters’ wounds and defense mechanisms”, and a defence mechanism is a version of yourself built for other people to look at. The first book kept its characters in a room where those versions could not hold for long.
The next novel, by his account, approaches the problem from the other side of the glass. It is more concerned with observation and obsession, and with what happens to the person doing the looking.
“The next book is concerned with the difference between seeing someone and imagining that you know them,” he says.
He has not attached a plot, a character or a city to that sentence, and this piece will not supply one. The line stands on its own as a statement of intent: a book about the space between watching a person and believing you understand them.
A change of climate
Setting carried weight in the first book. Kirkus placed its collisions “in the rainy streets of Paris”, and the author has spoken about place as something that shapes what characters notice and allow themselves to say.
He says setting plays a major role again. This time he describes a more Mediterranean, sensual atmosphere, with a darker psychological undercurrent running beneath it.
Read together, his two descriptions set a bright, sensual surface against darker material underneath. Three Days Grace worked a related contrast, putting a family’s buried history inside one of the most photographed cities in the world. The new book, as he describes it, turns up the light and deepens the shadow at the same time.
Holding back the title
For a novelist with a mainstream debut still collecting reviews and a win in the American Fiction Awards, silence about the next can look like strategy. It also suits a writer whose mainstream debut took silence as its subject.
The decision leaves his mainstream debut to speak for him in the meantime. Three Days Grace has drawn reviews from Kirkus, Independent Book Review and The Independent Review of Books, and coverage from YASS Magazine and QueerAF. A reader who picks it up now will meet the questions he says he is carrying forward, set in a city he knows as a resident.
He has not given a publication date, and he has not named the publisher’s plans for the book. Readers have a direction, a mood and one sentence about seeing and knowing.
Readers who followed Lynne, Nick and the others through three days in Paris know the questions he is taking with him. They will have to wait for the title to learn where he has taken them.
Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato is an American novelist based in Paris. His novel Three Days Grace is published by Indigo River Publishing and distributed by Simon & Schuster.
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