The Deal

Hannah Wells is focused on school, music, and keeping her life under control. Garrett Graham is Briar University's confident hockey captain, but one bad grade threatens his future on the ice. When Garrett learns Hannah aced the class he is struggling with, he proposes a deal: she tutors him, and he helps raise her social profile with the guy she likes.

What begins as a practical arrangement pulls Hannah and Garrett into each other's worlds. Study sessions become friendship, staged appearances begin to feel real, and both are forced to confront experiences and family pressures they usually keep hidden. Their growing relationship unfolds against college life, music, parties, hockey, friendships, and the complicated expectations surrounding them.

The Deal is a contemporary new-adult sports romance about trust, healing, ambition, attraction, and discovering that the person you never expected can become the one person you need.