Mandi Berns writes the kind of story you'd want to lose sleep over. Slow burns with real heat, characters who carry real weight, and soundtracks you'll actually want to listen to. A northern girl who learned to love the South and somehow ended up in the Midwest, she wrote her debut novel Collision Course because sometimes you write the book you need, and then you hope someone else needs it too.

When she's not writing, she's lost in an audiobook, arguing about board game strategy, or on a long walk around a lake pretending she's not plotting her next chapter.