From the Car Behind

Allan Gerard runs the western factory of the Mercury automobile company and still drives its racer himself, because no one else does it as well. At a twenty-four-hour race on Long Island he watches an amateur named Corrie Rose, not quite eighteen, push a car finished in pink enamel and silver-gilt far past his own experience, and takes the wheel to carry him through. That rescue wins Gerard a place in the Rose household for the two weeks before the Cup, among them Corrie’s quiet sister Flavia and a forward cousin, Isabel. Sport gives way to a harder question about honor, loyalty, and how far a man will go to shield a friend. Ingram had seen a driver killed at a track before writing her first racing novel, and the mechanical detail carries that weight.