Kimberly Raye, Roxanne St. Clair and Debra Webb, A NASCAR Holiday

A NASCAR Holiday

Kimberly Raye, Roxanne St. Clair and Debra Webb

HQN, Nov 2006, $6.99

ISBN: 0373771568

"Ladies, Start Your Engines" by Kimberly Raye. Widower Will Calloway shocks his daughter Savannah when he fires her from Calloway Motor Sports, a major participant in the Nextel Cup competition. Will is worried that Savannah has not settled down, even though she is twenty-eight. Savannah tells Jameson team driver Mackenzie Briggs that he needs her to become the top racer in the Fort Worth area, as she plans to prove to her father that no one knows engines better than her. He agrees, but it is more than cars they will work on.

"Tis the Silly Season" by Roxanne St. Clair. Raleigh waitress Lisa Mahoney has no credit to buy a Mighty Motor Remote Control Stingray and a Mighty Flight Remote Control Viper as Christmas presents for her children. A woman tells NASCAR Busch Series Driver Clay Slater that she needs him only if he settles down. Clay explains to Lisa that he needs a family to prove to Kincaid Toys he is their perfect salesman. When Lisa loses her job due to a TKO, they make an agreement, but neither expected love would seal the deal.

"Unbreakable" by Debra Webb. In Huntsville Rocket City team owner Buck Buchanan warns star driver Russell "Rush" Jackson that his career will end if he fails to watch his image, as a photo surfaced that impugns his honor and affirms to those that racing is not a sport. Buck also tells Rush he has arranged for New England Institute for Independent Experts to study racing to ascertain whether this is a sport or not. Dr. Maxine "Max" Gray is sent to investigate. However, while the researcher and the driver fall in love, someone continues to smear Rush for no apparent reason.

Contemporary readers will "Go for the Gold" when they ride with these delightful NASCAR romances.