The Score (Off-Campus, Book 3), by Elle Kennedy | Free Audiobook
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A surprise that changes every plan she ever made
Sabrina James has built her entire life around getting out. Raised by her grandmother in a neighborhood she has always wanted to leave behind, she works two jobs alongside a full course load and has her sights set on Harvard Law. Nothing in that plan leaves room for a hockey player, let alone for John Tucker, the quiet, Texas-raised Briar University defenseman she spends one unplanned night with.
Tucker has never been the loudest in any room. His teammates Garrett, Logan, and Dean take up most of the space, and he has been fine with that. What he is not fine with is learning he is going to be a father and that the woman carrying his child has no intention of letting him be part of it. Tucker doesn't do benches, and he doesn't do half-measures. If Sabrina won't open the door, he will find another way in.
The fourth book in the Off-Campus series is the one that feels least like a college romance. The pregnancy storyline pulls Tucker and Sabrina outside the usual campus bubble and into something with more at stake. Kennedy keeps the warmth of the series intact while writing two people who are genuinely trying to figure out how to become something neither of them planned for.
By the time The Goal arrives, you know Tucker only as background. The guy in the pink apron. The one with the Texas accent who doesn't want to go pro. Giving him a book felt like a long shot, and then it didn't, almost immediately.
What Kennedy does differently here is remove the series from its own comfort zone. There is no slow burn that plays out against parties and practice sessions. Tucker and Sabrina's story is grounded in something harder: an unplanned pregnancy, a woman with real financial pressure and a complicated home situation, and a man who refuses to perform the role of absent father. The stakes are adult ones, and the book earns the shift in register.
Sabrina is the most guarded of Kennedy's heroines in this series, and also the most understandable. Her reasons for keeping Tucker at a distance are not manufactured drama. She grew up watching men disappear, and she has spent years building a version of her future that doesn't depend on anyone. Tucker's persistence could easily read as pressure. Kennedy writes it so it doesn't, which takes real care.
The overlap in timeline with The Score is a clever structural choice. Seeing the same events from a different angle without it feeling like recycled content is harder than it looks, and Kennedy pulls it off cleanly. Tucker's friendship with his teammates also gets more texture here, particularly in the moments where the others show up for him in ways that are low-key and specific.
On the narration: Susannah Jones takes over Sabrina's chapters from Savannah Peachwood, who voiced Allie in The Score, and the change suits the character. Jones brings a flatter, more guarded quality to Sabrina that tracks. Andrew Eiden carries Tucker with the same steadiness he brought to Logan and Dean, and his Texas inflection is consistent without becoming a caricature. At 10 hours and 39 minutes, the dual narration keeps the emotional shifts clean and the pacing honest.
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The Goal by Elle Kennedy closes out the original Off-Campus quartet with John Tucker and Sabrina James, two people whose one night together becomes something neither of them can walk away from. Sabrina has a plan, law school, a career, and a life far from where she started. Tucker has a steadiness that the rest of his teammates never quite managed. What they build together is slower and harder than what came before in this series, and that is exactly what makes it work.
Take advantage of the free trial, cancellable at any time, and hear Susannah Jones and Andrew Eiden carry Tucker and Sabrina across 10 hours and 39 minutes. Jones brings exactly the right restraint to Sabrina's chapters, and Eiden's Tucker is warm without being soft.
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