The racetrack has been my home since I was fifteen.
It’s where I found myself ... my passion.
It’s where I go to breathe and escape the chokehold
I can’t free myself from.
I laugh when people tell me how dangerous racing is. If they only knew my relationship was the bigger threat. My life becomes more unstable the longer I stay. But I’m caught between happy memories of the sweet boy I fell in love with a lifetime ago and the controlling and callous brute he is today.
He’s taken a lot from me over the years,
and I’m not sure I have much left to give.
Racing is the one thing that keeps me going.
That, and the undeniable passion I have for
Jackson Powell—the owner of my new team.
He understands me, even with what little he knows about me. He encourages me to fight for what I want most in this world—no matter the cost. But my dream, as well as my last shred of freedom, is being threatened at every turn.
The more I resist the life I’m bound to,
the closer I get to my breaking point.
And if I shatter, I’m uncertain I’ll be strong enough to put myself back together again.
Octane
- abusive relationship
- age gap
- alpha hero
- angst
- anxiety
- arranged marriage
- athlete
- attempted murder
- billionaire
- break up to save him/her
- broken in some way
- cheating
- coercion
- control
- damsel/dude in distress
- dark secret
- dating the wrong person
- dubious consent
- emotional abuse
- enemies to lovers
- false imprisonment
- fish out of water
- fling
- forbidden love
- gun violence
- he falls first
- hea
- if i can’t have you, nobody will
- insta-love
- manipulation
- mistaken identity
- narcissism
- on the road
- physical abuse
- protector
- profanity
- revenge
- sexual abuse
- sexually explicit scenes
- skeletons
- violence
- woman in peril