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Elle Kennedy has a new book on the way — Love Song!The upcoming book is a standalone romance within the Off Campus universe, and follows the children of two couples from earlier booksLove Song will be available March 17, 2026
Elle Kennedy has another romance on the way!
The bestselling author of the Off Campus books is adding to the popular series’ Briar universe with Love Song, a standalone novel starring the next generation of characters. Set to debut in March 2026, Love Song is a sweeping tale of young love in the height of summer.
The novel follows Blake Logan — the daughter of the couple in Kennedy’s The Mistake — and Wyatt Graham, the son of the couple from The Deal.
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 — her former crush and a “living embodiment of a bad idea” — 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.
‘Love Song’ by Elle Kennedy.
Bloom Books
“He’s spent years keeping his distance, convinced he’s all wrong for her, but she’s no longer the innocent girl he once knew,” the book’s synopsis reads. “She’s confident, captivating and impossible to ignore. And the slow-burning tension between them? It’s catching fire fast.”
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.
“When fate brings them together again, Blake and Wyatt must decide if this is a second chance — or the final verse,” the synopsis concludes.
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 — many of them romantic interests in her earlier books — find a way to navigate their children’s romance via group chat.
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Her newest novel has been a fulfilling journey for Kennedy, she says, as she got to return to some of her most beloved characters.
“Love Song means so much to me because it is my first true next-gen romance. It was such a joy to write because I got to revisit two of my favorite O.G. Off Campus characters (the iconic Garrett and Logan) via their son and daughter getting their [happily ever after].”
Love Song will be available March 17, 2026 and is available for preorder now, wherever books are sold.