{"product_id":"chicane-maeve-cross-9798197710079","title":"Chicane: A Forbidden Enemies-to-Lovers F1 Romance","description":"\u003cb\u003eSHE SWORE SHE'D NEVER WORK FOR THE MAN WHO KILLED HER FATHER.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne season. One paddock. One impossible promise.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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: \u003cb\u003enever work for Ronan Callahan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo watch him lose.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonan Callahan knows the real reason her father died.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe promised a dying man he would never tell her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne forbidden affair. One promise made nine years ago in a paddock at Spa. One secret about to burn them both to the ground.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHE FALLS FIRST. HE FALLS HARD. AND WHEN HE FALLS, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY CLOSE YOUR BEDROOM DOOR.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor readers of\u003c\/i\u003e Deep End \u003ci\u003eby Ali Hazelwood, \u003c\/i\u003e Throttled \u003ci\u003eby Lauren Asher, and\u003c\/i\u003e Fourth Wing \u003ci\u003eby Rebecca Yarros.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTROPES INSIDE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnemies-to-lovers - she hates him, he loves her, both are in trouble\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHe falls first, he falls hard - four years of obsession before she ever walked into his office\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForbidden workplace romance - she is his engineer, he is her principal, everyone is watching\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForced proximity - same paddock, same hotels, every other Sunday for nine months\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTouch her and you die - the Monaco corridor scene, you will know it when you get there\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eObsessed grumpy hero who does not raise his voice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSlow burn with open-door heat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFound family, grief, healing, and the women who survive the men they loved\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStandalone with a guaranteed happily-ever-after\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eHEAT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour out of five chiles. Slow burn to open door. Worship and possession register. Plot-integrated, never gratuitous. Aftermath always tender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSETTING\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fictional 2026 Formula 1 season across Miami, Austin, Monaco, Silverstone, Las Vegas, Mexico City, Charleston, and Abu Dhabi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWHERE TO START\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicane\u003c\/b\u003e is Book 1 of the \u003cb\u003eKestrel Racing\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook 2 - APEX (Theo and Wren) - Coming 2026.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook 3 - POLE POSITION (Mateo and Lane) - Coming 2026.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWelcome to Kestrel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe don't chase. We close.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maeve Cross\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798197710079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.87d","brand":"Maeve Cross","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173392785663,"sku":"9798197710079","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chicane-maeve-cross-9798197710079","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}