Debut novel · Summer 2026
A love story on a collision course.
Mandi Berns writes contemporary adult fiction and romance — intimate, unhurried novels about longing, becoming, and the kind of love that arrives like weather. Her debut, Collision Course, arrives summer 2026.
“She is air, and I've been gasping. She is warmth, and I've been freezing. She is light, and I've been lost in the dark.”
— From Collision Course
Forthcoming · Summer 2026
Collision Course
Two lives, one impossible swerve.
Alli Lawrence has spent three years rebuilding her life after losing her husband. Then a chance encounter with country music's most talked-about songwriter turns her carefully rebuilt world sideways. Dane Carson has his music, his cap, his journal, and his lemon squares. He didn't expect a fifth. Collision Course is a slow-burn contemporary romance about grief, second chances, and the kind of love that arrives like an accident, refusing to be undone.
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