NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n
Elle Kennedy has another romance on the way!\n<\/p>\n
The bestselling author<\/a> of the Off Campus<\/a> books is adding to the popular series’ Briar universe with Love Song<\/a>, a standalone novel starring the next generation of characters. Set to debut in March 2026, Love Song<\/a> is a sweeping tale of young love in the height of summer.\n<\/p>\n The novel follows Blake Logan \u2014\u00a0the daughter of the couple in Kennedy’s The Mistake<\/a> \u2014 and Wyatt Graham, the son of the couple from The Deal<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n Blake has run off to her family’s Tahoe lake house, where she’s sworn off men to avoid drama. Her plan seems airtight, until Wyatt \u2014 her former crush and a “living embodiment of a bad idea” \u2014 arrives. Wyatt’s at Tahoe not for seclusion but for inspiration to lull him out of his musical rut, but he didn’t expect to find it in Blake.\n<\/p>\n ‘Love Song’ by Elle Kennedy.<\/p>\n Bloom Books<\/p>\n “He\u2019s spent years keeping his distance, convinced he\u2019s all wrong for her, but she\u2019s no longer the innocent girl he once knew,” the book’s synopsis reads. “She\u2019s confident, captivating and impossible to ignore. And the slow-burning tension between them? It\u2019s catching fire fast.”\n<\/p>\n The budding romance is propelled by a reckless kiss or two, until “soon they’re tangled in something that feels dangerously like more.” But their nearly perfect summer is soon ripped apart by tragedy.\n<\/p>\n “When fate brings them together again, Blake and Wyatt must decide if this is a second chance \u2014\u00a0or the final verse,” the synopsis concludes.\n<\/p>\n Kennedy tells PEOPLE she can’t wait for readers to experience Blake and Wyatt’s banter, the lakeside setting and most of all “the ANGST.” She’s especially excited for fans to take a step inside the “dad chat,” where the characters’ dads \u2014\u00a0many of them romantic interests in her earlier books \u2014\u00a0find a way to navigate their children’s romance via group chat.\n<\/p>\n