The Deal
Worth buying if: You enjoy hockey-team dynamics and locker-room tension in campus romance.
Skip it if: You avoid contemporary romance centered on sports-team settings and sexual tension.
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Summary
When Hannah Wells agrees to tutor the star captain of the college hockey team, the practical arrangement spirals into emotional stakes, locker-room tensions, and risky attraction in Elle Kennedy's campus romance THE DEAL.
Why this book now
With THE DEAL on the New York Times bestseller lists, readers are rediscovering Elle Kennedy's landmark college-romance tale and its influence on contemporary campus romances.
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Good fit if you want...
- You enjoy hockey-team dynamics and locker-room tension in campus romance.
- You follow Elle Kennedy's blend of witty banter and slow-burn attraction.
- You avoid contemporary romance centered on sports-team settings and sexual tension.
- You prefer realist literary fiction without romantic tropes like tutoring-for-favors.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9781775293934
Worth buying if: You enjoy hockey-team dynamics and locker-room tension in campus romance.
Skip it if: You avoid contemporary romance centered on sports-team settings and sexual tension.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
Reader guide
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Reading commitment
Steady Needs some room
A fast-moving contemporary romance designed for a few focused sittings—expect around a typical single-volume campus romance length and quick emotional payoff.
What stands out here
This Bloom edition highlights Elle Kennedy's original campus-romance premise—Hannah Wells's tutoring deal with the hockey captain—alongside the author's sharp dialogue and character chemistry.
Best way to approach it
Lean into the dialogue and scenes in locker rooms and study sessions; savor the banter and let the slow-burn relationship development set the pace.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9781775293934
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