The Chase

The Chase is not one of the original Off-Campus books, but it is the most useful bridge once Prime Video viewers want to keep reading in Briar University. Amazon's official Off Campus page names Summer Di Laurentis among the Season 2 additions, and this is the book where Summer becomes a romance lead.

The setup is built for the same audience: a hockey house, a bright and social heroine, a guarded player who prefers quiet, and a forced-proximity arrangement that turns irritation into attention. Summer is Dean Di Laurentis's sister, so the book also gives screen-first readers a wider look at the family and campus orbit around the main Off-Campus couples.

Read it when you want the franchise to stay familiar but not repeat The Deal. The Chase keeps the banter and team energy, then shifts the focus toward being underestimated, wanting a fresh start, and deciding whether chemistry is worth the mess it brings.

Summer Di Laurentis is louder than some people are prepared to take seriously. The book is strongest when it lets her be funny and wounded at the same time.

Colin "Fitzy" Fitzgerald is the quiet roommate who mistakes emotional distance for control.

The Briar U house keeps the romance social. Privacy is hard to find when everyone knows everyone else's business.

No. 1 · Summer as a lead. Prime Video's casting news makes this a useful background read before she becomes a larger screen presence.

No. 2 · A new series doorway. It starts Briar U without asking readers to abandon the Off-Campus world.

No. 3 · Opposites with texture. The book works best when confidence and insecurity sit close together.

Read this if you are...

• Following Prime Video's Off Campus and curious about Summer Di Laurentis.
• Looking for hockey romance with forced proximity and roommate tension.
• Interested in a spinoff that still feels close to the original group.
• Comfortable with new-adult romance and campus-party texture.

Skip it if you are...

• Wanting the original Off-Campus couples only.
• Looking for a low-drama closed-door romance.
• Frustrated by miscommunication and guarded male leads.
• Uninterested in college-house dynamics.

• Read The Score first if your main interest is Dean and Allie.
• Treat this as a bridge, not a required Season 2 source.
• Watch how Summer's public confidence differs from her private doubts.
• Continue to The Risk if Brenna and Jake's sharper rivalry sounds more appealing.

• Elle Kennedy - The Score. Summer's family context is clearer after Dean's book.
• Elle Kennedy - The Goal. The last original Off-Campus couple before the wider Briar U lane.
• Elle Kennedy - The Graham Effect. The next-generation hockey-romance path.
• Ali Hazelwood - The Love Hypothesis. Fast contemporary romance with a screen-development hook.
• Mercedes Ron - Drawn Together. Another streaming-led romance source path.

1. How does Summer use humor when people underestimate her?
2. Does Fitzy's guardedness feel protective or unfair?
3. What does the roommate setup add beyond convenience?
4. How does the book balance spinoff familiarity with a new couple?
5. Would Summer read differently without the Di Laurentis family link?
6. What makes the Briar U setting different from Off-Campus?
7. How should a screen adaptation handle Summer's point of view?
8. Does the book make you want a wider Briar franchise?