Spotlight & Giveaway: The Charlie Method by Elle Kennedy

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Elle Kennedy’s new release: The Charlie Method

The third in the steamy, hilarious Campus Diaries series by New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy, set in the same world as Off Campus and Briar U.

College senior Charlotte Kingston is living two lives―and she’s nailing both of them. By day, she’s the perfect sorority girl, a STEM student in biomedical engineering, and the adopted daughter of an overachiever family. At night, she’s Charlie: a risk-taking daredevil looking for fun who finds herself chatting on a dating app with two anonymous hotties.

Will Larsen may seem like the breezy boy next door, but his congressman father is a constant thorn in his side. After a scandal hits another Division 1 hockey program, Will’s dad is determined to distance his son from it, hiring a journalist to prove how squeaky-clean Will and his team are. Which means the last thing Will wants is for anyone to find out he and his best friend Beckett Dunne―a laidback Aussie shielding secret heartache―sometimes share girls in the bedroom.

When Charlie finally meets them in person and realizes she’s been chatting with two gorgeous Briar U hockey players, things get steamy―fast. But all their messy secrets are piling up, and real life soon threatens to shatter the fantasy. With Charlie, Will, and Beckett all coming to terms with what they want and what others want for them, difficult decisions will need to be made.

Especially when lust starts to look a lot like love.

Enjoy an exclusive excerpt from The Charlie Method 

To recap, I hate Tuesday mornings because of Beckett and his annoying sugar puffs.

But I hate Tuesday afternoons even more.

Normally, you’d say “cell and tissue engineering” and watch me orgasm at your feet. But this lab has been a total nightmare. In September, when I was still young and naive, I predicted this would be my favorite lab. Nearly two months later, I’m a grizzled old fool who prays for the semester to end.

My lab partner is an idiot.

Fine, maybe idiot is the wrong word. IQ wise, he’s probably intelligent because you don’t take a senior-level engineering lab if you’re stupid. So perhaps the right word is…irritant. He’s an irritant. Like birch during allergy season. I hate birch. And I hate George.

The guy seems determined to drag down my average by spending all his time mooning over his girlfriend, Lourdes. They even text each other in class, and she’s only two workstations away. I feel bad for her lab partner. He and I are like soldiers in the same prisoner-of-war camp.

Except this afternoon, on a cloudy October day, something glorious happens.

“Charlotte,” our TA, Monica, calls when I enter the fluorescent-lit laboratory. “You have a new lab partner.”

I can barely contain my glee as I approach her workstation. “What? Since when?”

“The request was approved yesterday. Professor Bianchi deemed it necessary for the well-being of the student.”

My brow furrows. “The well-being?”

She glances around to make sure nobody is listening, then lowers her voice. “It was a mental health issue.”

“Wait.” I stare at her in horror-tinged confusion. “I’m sorry—is George alleging I’m a danger to his mental health?”

“Oh, no, no! Nothing like that.”

“Then why⁠—”

Monica waves a hand, a wry smile playing on her lips. “Just take the win, Charlotte. You know you hated working with him.”

I shrug. Busted.

“You’ll be paired with Will for the rest of the semester.”

She gestures to the table where Lourdes and Will usually work. I don’t know anything about the guy other than he’s a fellow senior and another hockey jock. He wears the same black-and-silver jacket as Beckett from Climate Policy, with the Briar U logo and two crisscross hockey sticks over the left breast.

I don’t know a thing about the sport, and since my only example of a hockey guy comes from Beckett, I just hope this one spends more time working than flirting.

At the very least, I’m praying he’s an upgrade from George.

I slide into the chair next to him and set my bag on the floor beneath our table, next to his backpack.

“Hi,” I greet him. “I’m Charlotte.”

“Will.” His voice is deeper than I expected. I realize I’ve never actually heard him speak.

His gaze sweeps over me, so I give him a once-over in return, because fair game. He has those classically good looks that most guys would kill for. Symmetrical features, straight nose, great jawline. And although his clean-shaven face and easy smile lend him that all-American vibe, he also has the jock build that fits my hookup criteria. But I’m not going to hook up with my lab partner, no matter how cute he is.

His brown eyes, intense and focused, seem to pierce right through me, revealing both intelligence and a hint of mischief.

Excerpt. ©Elle Kennedy. Posted by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
 
 

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Meet the Author:

A New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Elle Kennedy grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, and holds a B.A. in English from York University. From an early age, she knew she wanted to be a writer, and actively began pursuing that dream when she was a teenager.

Elle currently writes for various publishers. She is the author of more than 50 titles of contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels, including the global sensation Off-Campus series.

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