THE FIFTEEN-MINUTE RULE
Max Monroe
• 30 January 2026
• standalone
• Book #3 in the Dickson University Series
• Billionaire Bad Boys Second Generation & secret Winslow siblings!
Dickson University’s reigning social king can get any girl on
campus to fall for him…except the one he’s been silently falling for his whole
life.
Campus legend. Life of the party. The guy everyone wants to
know.
That’s me—Ace Kelly.
But the one person who truly knows me? Julia Brooks.
My best friend since we were kids.
Julia’s the kind of girl everyone loves. Sweet, painfully
beautiful, and steady, she’s always been my constant.
Somewhere between childhood and college at Dickson
University, I fell for her. Hard. And I’ve been running an incognito mission
ever since.
Operation: Make Julia fall in love with me...without ruining
the friendship.
Flawless plan, right? Wrong.
One catastrophically stupid moment—fine, several—might’ve
blown everything apart.
We’ve always had our fifteen-minute rule: get mad, shout,
hate each other all we want, but when the time is up, we're back to best
buddies.
But this time, fifteen minutes might not be enough.
Not when Julia’s trust and our entire lifetime of “us” is
suddenly on the line.
I’m in love with my best
friend.
And come hell or high
water, I’m not giving up my girl without a fight.
Julia + Ace
Ace Kelly. Thatch's mini-me is finally getting his own book!
And he kinda just now realized what all of their friends and family have known for ages... that he's in love with his BFF Julia.
They've been super besties since before they were even born and now he's suddenly in love with her? How? Huh? What now?
LET THE FUN TIMES BEGIN!
ADORABLE!
Amazing third book in this second generation series!
We've been waiting for Ace's book for what feels like decades!
And now he's finally here and he's just as thatchy as we were hoping he'd be!
He's super happy in his little billionaire son college life with his bestie by his side. But then he's suddenly in love with her? WTF!? Poor guy. And it's not as easy as he might have thought to get her to fall for him too.
Well - it would be easy if they would just talk a bit more. But he's an idiot boy and he does some idiot things before we can finally get to that happy end. Lol.
I loved reading this.
It was super funny and ridiculous and sweet and adorable and just what you'd expect from a Thatch Junior rom-com!
Of course we also meet all the other kids and parents and friends and family again.
Lots of Thatch and Kline and Cassie and Georgie and of course Finn and Scottie and a bit Blake and Lexi. Amazing cast! And now we SO need Gunnar's book. He's only 14 now - but we can wait. A bit. He's so mysterious and crazy and interesting! He's what would happen if super crazy Cassie and Thatch had a baby with a James Bond Navy SEAL! GIMME!
(Finn's brothers might get their story first!)
Plus also - can we please get a Thatch Universe TV Show??
THE FIFTEEN-MINUTE RULE was another perfect addition to this Winslow/Billionaire Bad Boys second generation Dickson University series. So funny + adorable + sparky + ridiculous + frustrating + just beautiful! And also... THATCH!! Run to your nearest book dealer for your own Acer - this one is so mine!
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About five years ago, a dynamic duo of romance authors teamed up under the pseudonym Max Monroe, and, well, the rest is history...
Max Monroe is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of more than thirty contemporary romance titles. Favorite writing partners and long time friends, Max and Monroe strive to live and write all the fun, sexy swoon so often missing from their Facebook newsfeed. Sarcastic by nature, their two writing souls feel like they’ve found their other half. This is their most favorite adventure thus far.
