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The Goal (Off-Campus, Book 4), by Elle Kennedy | Free Audiobook
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One night she wants to forget, one man who won't let her
Allie Hayes has been holding her life together with deadline pressure and a relationship that finally gave out. With graduation looming and no clear plan for what comes next, she ends up at a party she didn't need, in a house she shouldn't be in, with Dean Di Laurentis, a hockey star who collects one-night stands the way other people collect opinions. It happens once. She decides it won't happen again.
Dean is not used to being told no. He's wealthy, wanted, and almost completely unbothered by the world around him. Allie is the first person who genuinely doesn't seem interested, and that alone is enough to change his focus entirely. What starts as pursuit becomes something neither of them planned for, and when real loss hits Dean for the first time, neither of them is prepared for who he becomes under pressure.
The third book in Elle Kennedy's Off-Campus series stands on its own, but carries the emotional weight of everything built before it. Dean is harder to root for than Garrett or Logan, and Kennedy knows it. That tension between charm and damage is exactly what makes his story land.

I've been with this series since The Deal, and Dean's book was always the one I was most unsure about. He's funny, he's arrogant, and for the first two books he is firmly background noise. Giving that character a full story felt like a risk. It pays off.
What Kennedy does well here is resist the temptation to soften Dean before he's earned it. For a long stretch of the book, he remains exactly who he appears to be, a man who has never had to try hard for anything. Allie doesn't change that. Grief does. The death of his best friend Bo hits Dean in a way that nothing in his life has prepared him for, and his response, the drinking, the drugs, forgetting Allie's opening night, is ugly and specific and real. Kennedy doesn't paper over it. That section of the book is genuinely hard to listen to, in the best way.
The backstory with his old coach, the man whose daughter Dean once dated in high school, adds texture without taking over. It gives Dean a history that exists before Allie, which is important. And the subplot with Dakota, the ten-year-old girl he ends up coaching, is the kind of detail that signals a writer who trusts her story. It doesn't need to be there. That's precisely why it works.
Allie holds her own throughout. Her arc, the theatre career, the complicated relationship with her father, her refusal to wait for Dean to pull himself together, gives the romance a spine. She is not a reward for his growth. She's a person with her own things to lose.
On the narration: Savannah Peachwood and Andrew Eiden have been the voices of this series from the start, and by book three the chemistry between them is settled and easy. Peachwood brings warmth and sharpness to Allie without pushing too hard in either direction. Eiden's Dean is exactly right, smooth where the character performs, and genuinely cracked open in the scenes that call for it. At 11 hours and 41 minutes, the dual narration gives the story a rhythm that a single reader couldn't replicate.
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The Score by Elle Kennedy is the third book in the Off-Campus series and follows Dean Di Laurentis, Briar University's most confident hockey player, and Allie Hayes, a theatre student with a broken relationship behind her and an uncertain future ahead. What begins as a single night neither of them intended to repeat turns into something neither of them is built for. Kennedy puts her hardest hero through real loss before she lets him earn the ending.
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