Hearts Racing Series

The Christmas Coupe

Christmas 1955. Jingle bells, shotgun shells, and dirt track races.

Susannah Sheridan isn’t like most women. The twenty-one-year-old would rather tinker with an engine than shop for frilly dresses. The only thing she’s looking forward to this Christmas is seeing her brother win the short track race on Christmas day. But when her brother is injured, his opportunity to drive is snatched away.

Smooth-talking race promoter, Terry Boone, encourages Susannah to follow her dreams, despite her family’s arguments.

Detective Nick Mackenzie is determined to stop the criminal actions of the shady race promoter before Boone slips out of town with race winnings. But when Susannah decides to race, it places her in the middle of Nick’s dangerous plan to bring Boone to justice. Nick cares deeply for Susannah, but he’s never let her know. The more they work together in preparing for the Christmas race, keeping Susannah safe becomes top priority. Nick initiates a plan that involves a fake engagement and keeps his plans of arresting Boone a secret. But when Susannah learns Nick hasn’t been honest with her, will Nick lose his chance to catch the crook and convince Susannah to become his wife?

Short Track Summer

Summer 1956. Sunsets, sandy beaches, and dirt track races.

Waitress Maggie Sheridan mooned over Lance Elrod for many months, believing she’d someday marry the landscaper and live her dream life growing tulips in her very own house in Hickory Creek, Georgia. But when Lance returned from vacation engaged to a socialite, Maggie’s plans were upended with her tray of stuffed appetizers.

Mechanic Clayton Hinton has lost his racing team and his girl, Betty, to the arrogant and self-absorbed Lance. When he smashes into Maggie at Betty and Lance’s wedding, an impulsive kiss causes everyone to believe Maggie and Clayton are a couple. During Florida’s Summer Racing Series, Clayton decides the only way he can make it through the race is to join the Sheridan Racing team.

Maggie cracks under anything related to competition, but Clayton is determined to convince her that she can accomplish anything she sets her mind to, even when the odds are against her. Can these broken hearts give love a second chance?