The Deal
The international bestseller! A standalone novel* from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy! She’s about to make a deal with the college bad boy… Hannah Wells has finally found someone who turns her on. But while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she’s carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. If she wants to get her crush’s attention, she’ll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice…even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date. ...and it’s going to be oh so good All Garrett Graham has ever wanted is to play professional hockey after graduation, but his plummeting GPA is threatening everything he’s worked so hard for. If helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help him secure his position on the team, he’s all for it. But when one unexpected kiss leads to the wildest sex of both their lives, it doesn’t take long for Garrett to realize that pretend isn’t going to cut it. Now he just has to convince Hannah that the man she wants looks a lot like him.
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First in the Off-Campus series. College senior Hannah Wells needs to make her crush jealous and asks the school's hockey star, Garrett Graham, for help. He agrees to fake-date her in exchange for her psychology tutoring.
Yes. The Deal is an explicit new adult hockey romance, around 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is the first book in the Off-Campus series, one of the most-read new adult sports romance series of the 2010s.
Yes. The Deal is an explicit new adult hockey romance, around 4 to 5 out of 5 on the spice scale. It is the first book in the Off-Campus series, one of the most-read new adult sports romance series of the 2010s.
Elle Kennedy's Off-Campus series has five main books: The Deal, The Mistake, The Score, The Goal, and The Legacy. The connected Briar U series has four more books, with additional connected series following.
The Deal was written by Elle Kennedy, published in 2015 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
The Deal is 394 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Deal takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
The Deal is a standalone novel by Elle Kennedy, not part of a series.
The Deal is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.