Close Quarters by Regina Kyle
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MM SPORTS ROMANCE
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MM SPORTS ROMANCE
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BLURB
I left racing for a reason.
But when team owner Jacques LaRue offers me a chance to try to make amends for my best friend’s accident, I find myself back on the circuit hand-holding rookie driver Grady Lewis. We’re miles apart, and not just in age. He’s the sunshine to my grump. The fresh-faced newcomer to my jaded veteran. The friendly free spirit to my solitary recluse.
And if I want to help the man who I put in a wheelchair fund his new charity, I’m stuck being Mr. Sunshine’s race engineer for the rest of the season. The voice in his ear on race days. The link between him and the rest of the team. Which means we’ll be practically joined at the hip.
Strangely, despite our differences, the relationship works, on and off the track. And it’s the off-track part that’s the problem. Sure, we’re hot for each other. I mean, who wouldn’t want Grady? The guy is seriously smoking, with his California surfer boy good looks. But hooking up isn’t just a terrible idea, it’s potential career suicide. For both of us.
And falling in love? Well, that would be a disaster of epic proportions. Every time he goes out on the track, his life is in my hands. The last time I was responsible for someone I cared about, he wound up paralyzed, and I almost drowned myself in a bottle of Jameson. My head is telling me there’s no way I can risk that happening again.
But it seems like my heart has other ideas.
Close Quarters is a contemporary mm sports romance about open-wheel race car drivers. It’s a grumpy-sunshine, age gap love story set against the glitzy backdrops of Monaco, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and more. Close Quarters is a stand-alone book in the Faster series, which also includes books by Leslie McAdam and Victoria Denault.
I left racing for a reason.
But when team owner Jacques LaRue offers me a chance to try to make amends for my best friend’s accident, I find myself back on the circuit hand-holding rookie driver Grady Lewis. We’re miles apart, and not just in age. He’s the sunshine to my grump. The fresh-faced newcomer to my jaded veteran. The friendly free spirit to my solitary recluse.
And if I want to help the man who I put in a wheelchair fund his new charity, I’m stuck being Mr. Sunshine’s race engineer for the rest of the season. The voice in his ear on race days. The link between him and the rest of the team. Which means we’ll be practically joined at the hip.
Strangely, despite our differences, the relationship works, on and off the track. And it’s the off-track part that’s the problem. Sure, we’re hot for each other. I mean, who wouldn’t want Grady? The guy is seriously smoking, with his California surfer boy good looks. But hooking up isn’t just a terrible idea, it’s potential career suicide. For both of us.
And falling in love? Well, that would be a disaster of epic proportions. Every time he goes out on the track, his life is in my hands. The last time I was responsible for someone I cared about, he wound up paralyzed, and I almost drowned myself in a bottle of Jameson. My head is telling me there’s no way I can risk that happening again.
But it seems like my heart has other ideas.
Close Quarters is a contemporary mm sports romance about open-wheel race car drivers. It’s a grumpy-sunshine, age gap love story set against the glitzy backdrops of Monaco, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and more. Close Quarters is a stand-alone book in the Faster series, which also includes books by Leslie McAdam and Victoria Denault.
MY REVIEW
When former race engineer, Ben, walked away from F1, he thought it would be forever. He can't stomach being in the very industry that caused his friend Stefan to be in a wheelchair. But when team owner Jacques, comes to him with an arrangement involving his son, a driver in need of an engineer, he has to walk back into the life he left so Jacques will fund Stefan's organization. Now not only is Ben going to be the voice in rookie Grady's ear, he's trying not to act on his inexplicable attraction to the man. He cannot be with the racer whose career and possibly life, he holds in his hands, can he?
Grady's a nepo driver. He knows it, and can't do anything to change minds but race his best. His former engineer didn't exactly help him with that, but his new one is the opposite - supportive, gently guiding, and oh, did he mention - HOT?!? He can have his hot new career AND Ben, too, right?
Grady and Ben don't work on paper, but are actually perfect for each other. Their chemistry is hot, they complement each other in all the best ways, and Ben in particular, stands out as a really interesting, lovable character. This MM racing series just keeps getting better.
BLURB
Red flags only count on the track. In real life, I ignore them.
My name is Gabriel Allard, and I’m the only heir to a billion-dollar fashion empire and a rookie with Mayflower Racing. I know what everyone thinks — that I don’t deserve to be in the driver’s seat. And worse, that I mistreat people because my father will bail me out and fix things. None of that is true, but I’ve never been able to sway public opinion, so I’ve stopped trying. Dad hasn’t though. In an attempt to save my image and my seat on the race team, he hires me a boyfriend. Because the universe loves a good joke at my expense, he accidentally hires a guy I shared a scorching kiss with years ago. A guy who, instead of trying to use me like everyone else, ghosted me.
Axel Walsh is nothing like me. He’s levelheaded. Shy. Disinterested in motorsports. He wants to keep this professional. Since I love a challenge, I try to change his mind. The next thing I know we’re fake married, and Axel is in my bed. But is he really mine? It’s getting hard to tell the truth from the lies.
The public starts to buy my cleaned-up image, and I'm getting better results on the track, but privately I feel out of control. My life is on the line every time I strap into my race car, but I’ve never put my heart on the line, until him. I hope Axel and I can survive this publicity stunt and make it to the finish line without breaking each other’s hearts. Just like everything else in my life, the odds are against it.
Apex is a contemporary mm sports romance about open-wheel race car drivers. It’s a fake dating, fake marriage, slightly second-chance love story set against the glitzy backdrops of Monaco, Vegas, Paris, Greece and more. Apex is a stand-alone book in the Faster series, which also includes books by Leslie McAdam and Regina Kyle.
Red flags only count on the track. In real life, I ignore them.
My name is Gabriel Allard, and I’m the only heir to a billion-dollar fashion empire and a rookie with Mayflower Racing. I know what everyone thinks — that I don’t deserve to be in the driver’s seat. And worse, that I mistreat people because my father will bail me out and fix things. None of that is true, but I’ve never been able to sway public opinion, so I’ve stopped trying. Dad hasn’t though. In an attempt to save my image and my seat on the race team, he hires me a boyfriend. Because the universe loves a good joke at my expense, he accidentally hires a guy I shared a scorching kiss with years ago. A guy who, instead of trying to use me like everyone else, ghosted me.
Axel Walsh is nothing like me. He’s levelheaded. Shy. Disinterested in motorsports. He wants to keep this professional. Since I love a challenge, I try to change his mind. The next thing I know we’re fake married, and Axel is in my bed. But is he really mine? It’s getting hard to tell the truth from the lies.
The public starts to buy my cleaned-up image, and I'm getting better results on the track, but privately I feel out of control. My life is on the line every time I strap into my race car, but I’ve never put my heart on the line, until him. I hope Axel and I can survive this publicity stunt and make it to the finish line without breaking each other’s hearts. Just like everything else in my life, the odds are against it.
Apex is a contemporary mm sports romance about open-wheel race car drivers. It’s a fake dating, fake marriage, slightly second-chance love story set against the glitzy backdrops of Monaco, Vegas, Paris, Greece and more. Apex is a stand-alone book in the Faster series, which also includes books by Leslie McAdam and Regina Kyle.
MY REVIEW
All Gabriel's team seems to see are his PR mishaps, not his driving. So his father, team investor, and the rest of the team decide to hire a fake boyfriend for Gabe. Little do they know that their choice is someone Gabe is already familiar with, familiar enough that once upon a time, he and Gabe shared a smokin' hot kiss. That chemistry is still present, and will go a long way to selling this fake relationship. But is it really fake? Their feelings sure don't seem fake...
When Axel's presented with this new opportunity, it seems like the answer to all his problems, the money will go a long way...but when he's told who he has to fake date, he can't seem to say yes. But letting them convince him was the smartest move he's ever made, especially after a long line of bad decisions. Because Gabe is even better than he was the last time he saw him (kissed him). Now he just has to remember this is all fake and that he has an even better job waiting for him when this is all done.
These nepo babies grew up to be awesome men. I think Axel and Gabe are my favorite couple in this racing series. They're so sweet together, and the way their attraction grows to more is just one of the reasons I love MM romance so much. I'm not sure if more is to come in the Faster series, but I hope so because I've loved reading as these racers fell head over heels.
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