Elle Kennedy’s “Campus Diaries” series is coming to a close with a third and final book — and TODAY.com has a first look.
Kennedy exclusively revealed the cover of her next book, “The Charlie Method,” out Feb. 25, 2025, with TODAY.com.
Kennedy, known for her hit hockey romances that kicked off with 2015’s “The Deal,” has written three series set at the fictional Boston-area Briar University. There were the four books in the “Off-Campus” series, then four more with the “Briar U” spinoff quartet.
Kennedy kicked off the third spinoff series, “Campus Diaries,” in October 2023 with the next generation book “The Graham Effect,” which followed the daughter of the main characters in “The Deal.”
Each of Kennedy’s books typically follow a member of the Briar U hockey team as they find love on campus. But Kennedy’s next book seems to challenge that formula.
“The Charlie Method” will follow two hockey players — Beckett and Will — as well as a brand new character.
“I am so excited for everyone to meet her. Charlie is Korean American and a senior at Briar U studying biomedical engineering — but outside of her day-to-day studious life, she is secretly breaking all the rules,” Kennedy says in an email interview. “She feels a lot of pressure to be perfect (from outside influences, but mostly from the pressure she puts on herself) and I think that a lot of readers are going to be able to relate to the struggles she has balancing her double life and learning to live her truth. Oh, and she’s hilarious.”
Beckett and Will, best friends and Briar U teammates, were first introduced to readers with “The Graham Effect” and quickly became a fan favorite duo by the second book, “The Dixon Rule.” The third and final book in the series, “The Charlie Method,” will bring “polyamorous elements” to the Briar U canon in the relationships between Will, Beckett and Charlie.
“When I first started writing the Campus Diaries series, Beckett and Will grew on their own with this unavoidable dynamic,” Kennedy writes. “Introducing Charlie as the heroine who balances out both men flowed very naturally. She builds her own relationship with each guy, and I can’t wait for everyone to see how the three of them navigate everything throughout the book.”
Kennedy also teases that fans of the original books will want to tune in for “The Charlie Method.”
“The only things I’ll spill for now are that my Logan fans will be getting some love,” she says, referring to the main character of “Off-Campus” Book 2, “The Mistake.”
She adds that Briar U’s hockey coach, Coach Jensen, is “as cranky as ever with the guys this season,” and “the ever-lovable Mike Hollis” — a supporting character who never starred in an “Off-Campus” book but often stole the show throughout the original series and first spinoff — “has found his way back to Briar U…”
Read the official blurb for ‘The Charlie Method’:
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.
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