Collision Books in Order

The Collision books are city-set contemporary romances about people whose professional lives look a lot better than their personal ones. They are sharp, funny, and a little messy, with just enough chaos in each setup to make the title feel earned.

Train Wreck follows Eve Thorton, a wealthy, Yale-trained artist who gets hit with brutal reviews and decides she is not going to sit quietly and take the loss. Her road back to self-respect throws her toward Josh Logan, a tattoo artist from Queens who is talented, grounded, and not especially impressed by money.

Car Crash keeps the same urban energy but shifts the focus to Kitty and Dallas. She is smart, polished, and terrible at choosing men. He is charming, confident, and not exactly surrounded by stable women. Both look competent from the outside. Inside, their romantic lives are a full disaster.

Everyone in this series arrives a little banged up.

What ties the books together is the tension between image and reality. These characters care about work, reputation, and proving themselves, but love keeps showing up in inconvenient forms. There is also a nice New York texture running through both stories, with galleries, studios, offices, and neighborhoods giving the romances a lived-in backdrop instead of a generic big-city blur.

The tone stays more playful than heavy, even when the characters are digging out of embarrassment, failure, or bad judgment. If you like opposites, strong chemistry, and heroines who refuse to stay down after a public mess, this series lands well. Train Wreck and Car Crash can be read alone, but together they make a compact look at Gephart's talent for pairing ambitious women with men who meet them head-on.