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Head Over Wheels

A RoadTripping Short Story
By&Mackenzie Cartwright (Narrator)
Published
2020
Language
English

Synopsis

Danielle Perry loves classic cars, even though her driving record is far from clean. She works at Malcolm and Son Classic Car Restorations, and the cars are only part of the draw. The mechanic who restores them has her full attention too.

Malcolm King has restoration in his blood. For him it is an obsession that leaves almost no room for anything else. Yet Danielle, a sassy brunette, keeps pulling his focus away from the workshop. When he invites her along to a car show, he thinks it is a harmless idea, but business slips from his mind whenever she is close.

The trip lasts one week on the road, and that is long enough to turn two friends into lovers. A single drive in a classic car threatens to wreck what they have started, though. The question for Malcolm is whether his devotion to cars or his feelings for Dani will win out.

This is a contemporary romance with a workplace friendship at its centre and a road trip as its setting. The tone is light and flirtatious, with a romance that moves from friendship to something more over the course of a few days.

How it reads

Prose complexity 1/10