The Deal by Elle Kennedy Series: Off-Campus #1
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Sports Romance
Published by Self Published Publication Date: February 24th 2015
Pages: 358
Also in this series: The Mistake, The Score
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Sheβs 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, sheβs carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. If she wants to get her crushβs attention, sheβll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take noticeβ¦even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date.
...and itβs 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 heβs worked so hard for. If helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help him secure his position on the team, heβs all for it. But when one unexpected kiss leads to the wildest sex of both their lives, it doesnβt take long for Garrett to realize that pretend isnβt going to cut it. Now he just has to convince Hannah that the man she wants looks a lot like him.
BookBud’s Thoughts
The Deal leads you in one direction and then takes you in another.
I had a hard time getting into the book at first. I thought I already read this somewhere else. Same story same outcome.
I am so glad that I continued on.
College students Hannah and Garrett are a part of different social circles. Garrett being the popular all-star hockey player who happens to be the Big Man on Campus, and Hannah isβ¦ Not. Garrett needs a tutor for his Ethics class so he can make up a test that he failed, or he wonβt be able to play in the upcoming game. Β Hannah being only a handful of students who passed the test seems like the likely candidate to help him out.
The Characters of Garrett and Hannah arenβt as simple as they seem. Hannah a survivor of rape, handles herself pretty well. She knows what happened to her was not her fault but she still canβt seem to get intimate with a guy.Β That is until she sees a new guy in her class named Justin Kohl. She thinks he will be the one to get her over her intimacy problems. But, he doesnβt know she is alive.
Garrett, a charming hockey player who has a sad background himself and whose only focus is making it pro and has no desires to have a relationship with a girl anytime soon. Now that his chance at playing at the big game is hindering on him passing his ethics exam he needs to go and get Hannah to tutor him at any cost.
Garrettβs Deal for Hannah
Tutor me and I will get Justin to notice you.
Well the deal got lost somewhere along the way and these two realized that they were both broken and needed each other to heal. Their relationship grew from one of tutor, to one of friendship and to one of love and trust.
