Driven by Love

By Bridget Rey

Brand new Team Boss, Suzie Kitchener, has a big task in hand. Abruptly plunged into the masculine world of Nascar racing, she is tasked with bringing the poorly-performing Team Neptune back into the top ten finishers. But with thirty-nine other teams snapping at her heels, she faces an uphill struggle.

When she sacks the aging team driver, replacing him with the handsome ‘Tick’ Garfield, the spotlight is on them both. Rumors abound, throwing her professional conduct, and their relationship into question.

Can Suzie turn the team around, quashing the doubts about her professional conduct? Will the handsome driver, with a reputation for drinking and womanizing be focused enough to bring noticeable results? Or will Suzie have to bring out the secret cooling system she’s been developing behind the scenes?

Crucially, will she be able to keep her hands off the driver whose big brown eyes have allegedly mesmerized every woman who gazed into them?

WARNING: This book contains mature language and content intended for 18+ readers only!

A standalone short story ending Happily Ever After!

• Language: English
• Publisher: NP Nice and Romantic
• Release date: Jan 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463211427

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Title and Copyright Page

Driven by Love

Auto-Racing Sports Romance

Author: Bridget Rey

© Copyright 2018 by Bridget Rey. All rights reserved.

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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead is purely coincidental.

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Thank you for purchasing this book.

Table of Contents

Title and Copyright Page

Driven by Love

Description

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Driven by Love

Description

Brand new Team Boss, Suzie Kitchener, has a big task in hand. Abruptly plunged into the masculine world of Nascar racing, she is tasked with bringing the poorly-performing Team Neptune back into the top ten finishers. But with thirty-nine other teams snapping at her heels, she faces an uphill struggle.

When she sacks the aging team driver, replacing him with the handsome ‘Tick’ Garfield, the spotlight is on them both. Rumors abound, throwing her professional conduct, and their relationship into question.

Can Suzie turn the team around, quashing the doubts about her professional conduct? Will the handsome driver, with a reputation for drinking and womanizing be focused enough to bring noticeable results?

Chapter 1

Suzie Kitchener stepped up to the panoramic window of the VIP booth and inhaled deeply, relishing the heady scent of tire smoke, engine fumes, and the acrid tang of brake dust. She couldn’t help the smile that twitched her lips. It was as if she’d come home. It was true, she was no longer a nine-year-old kid on her father’s shoulders. She felt out of place in her business suit, heels, and blouse, although the other VIPs were just as smartly-dressed. But she’d still have felt more comfortable in scruffy coveralls, blond hair tucked beneath a baseball cap.

Below her, on a cement area randomly striped with black rubber, six men in lime green coveralls celebrated as their driver blasted back into the thick of the pack. The windows vibrated madly as the V-eight screamed. A cloud of tire smoke and track dust obscured her view until the hot winds cleared the air.

Suzie leaned over, her face almost touching the vibrating glass, trying to keep the lime green Nascar in view as it roared away to join the track, which ran parallel to the VIP booth. She watched as the car squeezed between two competitors, snuck out to pass the car ahead, and then it was gone, lost around the steeply curving oval track.

Yes… she hissed. Neptune Racing was already back up to twelfth place, despite the stop. The day was going well.

She’d arrived late—the result of a difficult board meeting—and missed the chaotic start that had cost four teams their cars. But with two hours of the race still to run, there would be plenty to see, including their new driver.

‘Tick’ Garfield was a recent acquisition for Neptune Racing, a deal recommended by Suzie herself. He was a good racer, with a solid record of high-place finishes. Nevertheless, Suzie knew her reputation within Neptune was in Tick’s hands.