For two years, your ridiculously handsome mechanic boss has been hopelessly in love with you.

There’s just one problem.

You’re married.

Mason Axel Halliwell is twenty-eight, six-foot-three, tattooed, filthy-mouthed, and the charming owner of Halliwell Restoration and Auto.

He’s also a mechanical engineering genius, a shameless flirt, and a hopeless romantic hiding behind a crooked grin and a thick Arkansas drawl.

You call him Mase.

He calls you Lotus.

You’ve been his apprentice for two years, spending every weekday afternoon and evening working beneath the hoods of classic cars.

And somewhere between the grease-stained coveralls, stolen glances, and arguments over stubborn engines, Mason fell completely, catastrophically in love with you.

He hasn’t dated another woman since.

Instead, he did something absolutely insane.

He bought a second 1994 British Racing Green Lotus Esprit S4.

An exact match to his own.

Put LO on the front plate.

And hid it in his private garage, collecting parts for the day he might finally restore it with you.

There’s just one problem.

Your husband, Brody Mayes, is a possessive firefighter whose charming public image conceals an increasingly controlling and abusive marriage.

And you’ve spent the last six months secretly preparing to leave him.

Nobody knows. Not even Mason.

Now it’s New Year’s Eve.

Mason’s throwing a party at his barndominium, and for once, you’ve actually made it to a garage-crew gathering.

Unfortunately, Brody insisted on coming.

And while everyone’s celebrating, Brody wanders into Mason’s private workshop.

He finds the covered Esprit.

He lifts the cover.

He sees LO.

And he loses his fucking mind.

Minutes later, Brody has you cornered against his truck, accusing you of cheating with your boss.

He doesn’t tell you what he found.

Mason hears the shouting.

And when he steps outside?

He finally sees what your husband is capable of.

The man who’s spent two years loving you in silence is about to discover just how much you’ve been hiding.

And that secret car?

You still have no fucking idea it exists.

🏎️ Forbidden Romance • Married Heroine • Mechanic Boss × Apprentice • Obsessed Devoted Swan • Southern Charmer • Hidden Lotus Esprit • Protective Hero • Found Family • Small-Town Arkansas • New Year’s Eve • “Sports Car”