Press kit.

The fifty-word version.

Maeve Cross writes contemporary motorsport romance with grown-up heat, brilliant heroines, and heroes who have been quietly in love for years before the heroine ever notices. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina. Chicane is her debut.

The hundred-and-fifty-word version.

Maeve Cross writes contemporary motorsport romance with grown-up heat, brilliant heroines, and heroes who have been quietly in love for years before the heroine ever notices.

She came to romance late, by way of Drive to Survive, an ill-advised dive down a Lauren Asher rabbit hole, and one specific October Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas in 2023. What she wanted to read was not on the shelf. So she wrote it.

Chicane is the first book in her Kestrel Racing trilogy — a 95,000-word debut about an F1 chief engineer, the team principal who has been quietly in love with her for four years, and the secret he made to her dying father a decade earlier. Book Two, Apex, lands Out Now. Book Three, Pole Position, closes the trilogy fall 2026 — all three books in the same calendar year.

She lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with too many books, an unreasonable opinion about Eau Rouge, and a vintage Rolex Submariner she does not wear.

Short blurb (110 words).

Sloane Kincaid has hated Ronan Callahan for ten years — since the day her father died at Spa with Ronan in the next car. Now Ronan owns the F1 team that has just hired her as its chief engineer. He has, also, been quietly in love with her since 2022, has built the team around the seat she would one day come to fill, and is keeping a secret about her father that the man asked him to keep with his last breath. One season. One forbidden affair. One promise that is about to break. He falls first. He falls hard. Open door. HEA.

The hook line.

He fell first. He fell hard. He has a folder in his desk with her name on it.