Campus romance has been one of the most durable settings the genre owns, and Camrose U plants its flag there in the series name itself. Maia Kinley writes it, and Off the Boards is the entry that reaches our shelves, filed under LGBTQ+ and romance together.
The setting explains a good deal about how work like this gets built. A university hands a novelist a closed world with a clock already running: terms end, people graduate and leave, and every relationship inside it is racing a deadline nobody has to stop and explain. Nine and a half hours is a full-length treatment, with the space a slow burn needs if it is going to earn its ending.