The Deal
Book by Elle Kennedy
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Sep 18, 2026
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I walked away with a harder problem, and the harder problem is the reason we are here.
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The book is The Deal by Elle Kennedy, published in 2015 on her own into a market that had just worked out it could sell college romance by the pallet.
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It outsold most of what the traditional houses were putting beside it.
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It turned into five books, then a second series orbiting the first.
JeniHOST
But that's all I know.
MeganHOST
Okay, so the titles of the books are The Deal, The Mistake, The Score, The Goal, and The Legacy.
MeganHOST
And they used that same the blank format for all the titles of the episodes, which I think is cool.
MeganHOST
I thought that was a cute nod.
CaseyHOST
So each book is about a different guy.
CaseyHOST
So season one is supposed to be about the first book called The Deal.
CaseyHOST
It's with Garrett and Hannah.
CaseyHOST
And then book two of the series is about, it's called, oh God, I forget right now, but it's supposed to be about a different.
Michelle EileenGUEST
I haven't read.
Michelle EileenGUEST
I really only read The Deal from her.
Michelle EileenGUEST
She wrote that a while ago.
Michelle EileenGUEST
So I'm excited to see what she's doing now.
VeronicaHOST
Where we read a romance novel, and then we talk about it.
VeronicaHOST
Tonight, we're talking about The Deal by Elle Kennedy.
RaeHOST
Yay.
RaeHOST
What's the dealio?
VeronicaHOST
[sighs]
RaeHOST
What's the Dealio's catalog? Um, so this-
VeronicaHOST
My God, the way I was obsessed with the Dealio's catalog [laughs]
RaeHOST
Right? I couldn't, I couldn't afford, or my parents couldn't afford half of the shit in there, and I was like-
CaitlinHOST
So now you've probably been watching off campus if you watched heated rivalry.
CaitlinHOST
And the first book in the off campus series is called The Deal.
CaitlinHOST
And it's actually been around for a long time, but it's been very much.
CaitlinHOST
a resurgence in popularity thanks to the tv show so today we're talking fake dating hot hockey players and i don't know that's really a problem college and a fake date it's romance uh it's a
KatherineHOST
deal yeah the
CaitlinHOST
deal they make a deal i'm guessing you had no idea from the title but uh They make a deal, the deal, and there's fake dating involved.
CaitlinHOST
And that's pretty much all you need to know because it's a short little book and it's a hockey romance.
CaitlinHOST
So.
speaker_1HOST
Mm.
speaker_2HOST
When Elle Kennedy's book The Deal hit the shelves in 2015-
speaker_1HOST
Yeah
speaker_2HOST
...
speaker_2HOST
Oh, absolutely.
speaker_1HOST
Yeah.
speaker_2HOST
When the deal was published, NCAA regulations strictly prohibited college athletes from receiving any sort of compensation.
speaker_1HOST
They couldn't make a dime off their own fame.
CharlieHOST
Yeah, go on.
CharlieHOST
I started reading The Deal, which is the first book in the series by Elle Kennedy, which is what Off Campus is based
LivHOST
on.
LivHOST
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
CharlieHOST
I sit in the garden.
CharlieHOST
And I've been reading and I've been really enjoying it.
CharlieHOST
But yeah, the deal, I can't put it down.
CharlieHOST
So if anyone's