Chicane

SHE SWORE SHE'D NEVER WORK FOR THE MAN WHO KILLED HER FATHER.

One season. One paddock. One impossible promise.

At twenty-nine, Sloane Kincaid is the only female lead race engineer on the Formula 1 grid. She is brilliant. She is untouchable. And she has exactly one rule: never work for Ronan Callahan.

The man who was leading the lap her father died on. The man who walked away with a World Championship and the scar along his jaw as the only thing the crash cost him. The boy from South Boston who turned her family's grief into a nine-year silence she has been disciplining herself out of feeling.

So when Ronan's hungry American team poaches her out of Mercedes for more money than any engineer on the grid, Sloane takes the job for one reason.

To watch him lose.

She is not ready for the way he looks at her across the garage. Or for the moment in Austin, after a near-fatal crash, when his hand ends up in her hair. Or for the way he has been speaking her name in private for four years she never knew about.

Ronan Callahan knows the real reason her father died.

He promised a dying man he would never tell her.

And he has spent eighteen months and a hundred and twenty-five million dollars building her a Formula 1 team to come and run, just to be in the same room with her for one season - knowing the season is the thing that ends them.

One forbidden affair. One promise made nine years ago in a paddock at Spa. One secret about to burn them both to the ground.

HE FALLS FIRST. HE FALLS HARD. AND WHEN HE FALLS, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY CLOSE YOUR BEDROOM DOOR.

For readers of Deep End by Ali Hazelwood, Throttled by Lauren Asher, and Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.

TROPES INSIDE

• Enemies-to-lovers - she hates him, he loves her, both are in trouble
• He falls first, he falls hard - four years of obsession before she ever walked into his office
• Forbidden workplace romance - she is his engineer, he is her principal, everyone is watching
• Forced proximity - same paddock, same hotels, every other Sunday for nine months
• Touch her and you die - the Monaco corridor scene, you will know it when you get there
• Obsessed grumpy hero who does not raise his voice
• Slow burn with open-door heat
• Found family, grief, healing, and the women who survive the men they loved
• Standalone with a guaranteed happily-ever-after

HEAT

Four out of five chiles. Slow burn to open door. Worship and possession register. Plot-integrated, never gratuitous. Aftermath always tender.

SETTING

A fictional 2026 Formula 1 season across Miami, Austin, Monaco, Silverstone, Las Vegas, Mexico City, Charleston, and Abu Dhabi.

WHERE TO START

Chicane is Book 1 of the Kestrel Racing series. Every book is a complete standalone with a guaranteed happily-ever-after - no cliffhangers between titles. Read in any order, or read in sequence and catch every cameo, callback, and cliffhanger handoff the paddock has been whispering about since Spa.

Book 2 - APEX (Theo and Wren) - Coming 2026.
Book 3 - POLE POSITION (Mateo and Lane) - Coming 2026.

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