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2015Elle Kennedy1 title in the corpus
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Elle Kennedy

Hot
Dual first person, present
1 title
1 series

Elle Kennedy runs 1 title through the immersion engine, spanning 2015 at an average heat of 4/5. The catalog leans hardest on college, narrated mostly in dual first person, present.

college
fake-dating
hockey
new-adult
slow-burn
sports
The signature

Averaged engineered signals

Every measure here is the mean across this author's catalog — the characteristic way their books work the immersion engine, on the same axes the catalog scores every title.

Avg heat rating
4/5111,381 words across 1 book — 391 pages
Anticipation Ratio
68Share of page-time spent on buildup and tension rather than payoff. High values mean the book sells the wait, not the moment.
Explicit Density
1.3avg explicit scenes / 100 pages
POV Immersion
88How strongly the narration collapses the gap between reader and protagonist, peaking with first-person, reader-insert voice.
Parasocial Index
82The "book boyfriend" pull: how hard the text works to form a one-sided attachment to a love interest.
Serialization
62Cliffhanger and serial-loop intensity — the compulsion to start the next chapter or installment.
Escalation Slope
48How steeply intensity ramps across the arc. A steep slope is the tolerance signal: each payoff has to outdo the last.

Content signature

The content this author's catalog leans into — first-pass lexical matches across 1 book.

Mentions of Backside170Kissing143Mentions of Male Genitalia96Mentions of Breasts56Climax / Orgasm40Mentions of Female Genitalia35
Engine signature
The author's averaged fingerprint across the five 0–100 signals — their characteristic balance of buildup, immersion, and attachment.
Signal breakdown
Each averaged signal scored out of 100, with what it measures.
Anticipation Ratio68/100

Share of page-time spent on buildup and tension rather than payoff. High values mean the book sells the wait, not the moment.

POV Immersion88/100

How strongly the narration collapses the gap between reader and protagonist, peaking with first-person, reader-insert voice.

Parasocial Index82/100

The "book boyfriend" pull: how hard the text works to form a one-sided attachment to a love interest.

Serialization62/100

Cliffhanger and serial-loop intensity — the compulsion to start the next chapter or installment.

Escalation Slope48/100

How steeply intensity ramps across the arc. A steep slope is the tolerance signal: each payoff has to outdo the last.

How this author compares
The author's averaged signals set against the catalog average — a measure of how far above the field their formula runs.
The catalog

Every title by Elle Kennedy

All titles credited to this author in the corpus, newest first — including any co-written with another author. Open any title for its full content dashboard.

TitleHeatAnticip.ParasocialSerialScenes
Cover of The Deal by Elle KennedyThe DealElle Kennedy · Off-Campus4
68
82
62
5

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