Tracey Jerald
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HE BROKE HER HEART WITH ONE SENTENCE.
NOW HE HAS TO PROVE SHE’S THE ONLY FINISH LINE THAT MATTERS.


After one overheard conversation, Christin Porter realizes being in love isn’t crossing a finish line.


As one of the top software engineers in the country, Christin built her career system by system proving she belonged in a world that rarely handed women respect. But when she overhears her boyfriend, Formula One race car driver, Leo Hawthorne, dismiss her as someone too ordinary for his life, it’s a pain that cuts deep.


Especially because earlier that morning they had shared avowals of love.


Determined to leave the sting of his words behind, Christin throws herself into work when the company she works for lands a massive contract with Apex Orion Racing. There’s just one hitch. She’s been assigned to it. Plus, her new assignment will require her to work directly with Leo.


Before living in the fast lane, Leo spent his life outrunning love because he knows the only way he’ll earn it is by being perfect. Something he knows he isn’t. But beneath the fame and speed is a man carrying secrets far heavier than a trophy. The more time he spends with Christin, the more he realizes he made the biggest mistake of his life.


Because Christin is brilliant, fierce, and impossible to ignore.


Long days on the track turn into quiet conversations. Stolen glances become heated. And somewhere between telemetry reports, dangerous speeds, and racing around the world, Leo discovers there’s one thing he wants more than winning championships.


Her.


But when the ghosts of Leo’s past threaten to destroy everything, will Leo finally fight for the woman who captured his heart?
Or will his fears break them both apart?



Excerpt


Leo


The car ticks as it cools, metal settling in sharp, uneven clicks. 

In spite of my accelerated breathing, I keep my gloves on knowing there’s every possibility Christin may collude with Dario to send me back onto a track that didn’t just challenge me physically, but required me to step outside my comfort zone from Turn One. My hands are braced on the halo, pulse still riding the edge of the last lap, but it’s not the intensity of the track that has my heart palpitating.

It’s her.  

Christin stands ten feet away, tablet in hand, debriefing Dario like I’m not there. It hurts to realize just how different this could have been if I’d listened to my heart. If I’d trusted her. 

If I’d believed in myself the way she apparently did and does.







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Performed by: Adrienne Fleming and Peter Alden

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes:  Football romance, Small town romance, Second Chance romance, Friends to lovers, Labrador Hero, OM Drama, He falls first and harder, Social media scandal/reputation ruin, Medical injury, Hidden truth revealed, Holiday Romance


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About the Author

Tracey Jerald has been making up stories for as long as she can remember—starting on bike rides through her Connecticut neighborhood and escalating to rewriting book endings instead of finishing college assignments. (In her defense, happily-ever-afters and Greek mythology both deserve proper attention.)


That lifelong love of storytelling eventually turned into the Amaryllis Series, and from there, an ever-growing catalog of emotionally rich contemporary romance and women’s fiction.


Tracey is the best-selling author of more than thirty novels, including the beloved Amaryllis Series, Midas Series, and Glacier Adventure Series. Her books are known for their heartfelt emotion, strong heroines, found family, second chances, and swoon-worthy romance—often layered with humor, angst, and just enough realism to make the happy endings feel earned.


Her novels are available on Amazon and free with Kindle Unlimited, and she has also contributed to multiple anthologies supporting both reader enjoyment and charitable causes.


When she’s not writing, Tracey is living her own happily ever after in north Florida, where she’s been married since 2007. She and her husband have one son—who is just as devoted to Fortnite as Tracey is to coffee. You’ll often find her plotting her next story, training for a runDisney event, or indulging her HGTV habit while convincing herself it totally counts as research.


If you love emotional contemporary romance, strong women, meaningful relationships, and stories that stay with you long after “The End,” you’re in the right place.



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