Description
Floor de Vries never expected Formula 1 to call her at thirty-five - especially not to replace Sonny Hayes at APXGP. Dutch, sharp-witted, and forged by years of racing's brutal realities, she's walked away from the sport before... but Joshua Pearce's offer is too good to refuse. Her return to the track carries the weight of the past. At eleven, she lost her father - a Dutch firefighter working in New York - during the 9/11 attacks. He was her first racing supporter, her loudest cheerleader, and the reason she still carries his firefighter badge, hidden in the lining of her race suit. The paddock greets her with mixed reactions. Friends like Max Verstappen and cousin Nyck de Vries welcome her with open arms. The media treats her as a curiosity - an "unlikely rookie." And Ferrari's Charles Leclerc? He's the first to challenge her, on track and off, with a rivalry that feels equal parts infuriating and magnetic. Their first connection happens far from the roar of engines - on a quiet Monaco balcony, under a sky she knows by heart. Between fierce battles for position and starlit conversations no one else hears, a slow-burn romance begins to take shape. But when her father's badge is stolen mid-season, the fight to get it back forces Floor to decide whether to keep Charles at arm's length... or let him stand by her side. A story of trust, tension, and finding home in someone unexpected - in a world where timing is everything, and nothing is certain.
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