An Infinite Love Story by Chanel Cleeton-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date July 7, 2026

When Joe Mitchell launches into space, the world is watching. It’s 1968, and the country waits with anticipation and excitement for another successful mission, another celebration as America sets its sights on the Moon. And then comes the knock at the door.

Joe Mitchell’s spacecraft has lost contact. He and his fellow astronauts onboard are feared to be dead. It’s his wife Vivian’s worst nightmare come to life, her grief suddenly taking center stage as the nation waits and mourns. In her quiet moments, Vivian relives their memorable story, unable to accept that this is the end to a love that felt as though it was written in the stars.

As the investigation surrounding Joe’s lost spacecraft intensifies and the mishap is written off as an operator error, Vivian is determined to clear her husband’s name and uncover the mystery of what happened in space. When someone starts sending Vivian messages—messages she believes only Joe could send—she begins to wonder if their love is stronger than space and time, and she’ll do whatever it takes to bring her husband back to her.

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REVIEW:AN INFINITE LOVE STORY by Chanel Cleeton is an adult, fictionalized historical account of journalist Vivian Mitchell, and her astronaut husband Joe, the commander of the 1968 Saturn V Rocket, and a possible cover up of the doomed lunar orbit mission.

NOTE: AN INFINITE LOVE STORY is a story of fiction- in reality, NASA launched 13 Saturn V missions, the Saturn V Rockets carried 24 astronauts to the moon without the loss of a single crew member.

Told from omniscient first person perspective (Vivian), covering 1961 to 1968, AN INFINITE LOVE STORY focuses on journalist Vivian Mitchell, as she navigates the 1960s, the space race, the Cuban missile crisis, love and loss. Meeting US Air Force fighter pilot Joe Mitchell gave Vivian pause but at the time Vivian set her sights on someone else. Months would pass, Vivian, once again, found herself in the company of the man with whom she would fall in love, and life would never be the same. As the space race intensifies in 1968, Joe Mitchell is selected as the commander of the Saturn V Rocket but within days after lift off, the spacecraft goes missing, and everyone aboard are presumed dead and gone. Vivian Mitchell refuses to accept the inevitable, and goes in search of the impossible.

The world building focuses on the life of the women left behind as their fighter pilot and ‘astronaut’ husbands are called towards bigger and better things. The reader is pulled into the fear and hopes of one woman who has loved and lost, a woman who is waiting for her husband’s return.

With elements of Apollo 13™ the movie, and 2001: A Space Odyssey ™, AN INFINITE LOVE STORY is a story of love and loss, expectations and failures, hope and courage with a very slight paranormal blush. The premise is a tale of contemplation, reflection and introspective thoughts-a dramatic and emotional look at possibilities. The characters are determined and real.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Chanel Cleeton is the USA Today bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick Next Year in Havana. Originally from Florida, Chanel grew up on stories of her family’s exodus from Cuba following the events of the Cuban Revolution. Her passion for politics and history continued during her years spent studying in England where she earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Richmond, The American International University in London and a master’s degree in Global Politics from the London School of Economics & Political Science. Chanel also received her Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law. She loves to travel and has lived in the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia.

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