About this book
Nicolas Aldric has spent eight years building a life in the paddock — a world with its own rules, its own hierarchy, and enough speed to make the question of what he wants outside it easy to avoid. He is the prince who left, and he does not regret it. But watching his brothers fall in love has named something he has been carrying without language: he is never alone and he is lonely.
Vera Shin has spent her career at the foundation believing that the work matters more than the rooms she has to enter to fund it. An F1 sustainability partnership sends her to Bahrain for a year of race weekends she did not ask for, working circuits she has no particular feeling about, for a sport she is not there to admire. She is assigned. She shows up. Every person in his orbit has spent years deciding how to react to him. Vera simply hasn't, and he notices this in the first twenty seconds and does not stop noticing.
Nicolas falls immediately and knows it. Vera is not far behind. What comes after is fast and real and lived across a full season — Bahrain, Chicago, Silverstone, São Paulo. Vera has spent her whole life learning not to build around people whose world will always be somewhere else. No one's world has ever been more completely, more permanently, somewhere else than his.
The cost of his world is not theoretical — it is twenty million people with opinions about who he belongs to, a name that precedes him into every room, and a calendar that does not pause. He cannot make it smaller. He cannot stop being who he is. The only question is whether that is something to be survived or something to be chosen.
Fast enough to outrun anything. Except her.
A royal romance. Book 3 in the Sorvaine Series.
COMING SOON.