The Chase

Summer Heyward-Di Laurentis loses her place at Brown University after a sorority house fire. She transfers to Briar University, near Boston, with no campus housing to go back to. Her older brother Dean solves the problem by placing her in a house with his friends from the Briar hockey team.

One of those housemates is Colin "Fitzy" Fitzgerald, a quiet, tattooed player who designs video games and keeps clear of drama. Summer has a crush on him. Then she overhears him write her off as superficial, and from there the two keep reading each other wrong while living under one roof. Hunter Davenport, another teammate in the house, hovers as a possible suitor and adds to the tangle.

The romance shares space with heavier threads. Summer has a learning disability and real worries about her place in school, and a professor abuses his authority over students. Fitzy's difficult home life left him wary of any kind of conflict, which shapes how he deals with her.

Chapters alternate between Summer's and Fitzy's points of view, so the reader sees both sides of each misunderstanding. This is the first Briar U book and a spin-off of the Off Campus series, with a few characters from that series making appearances.