Racetrack Romances?

Harlequin Romance and NASCAR are teaming up to create a new line of chick lit for the toothless set. This sounds like a marriage made in hell:

[from USA Today] The first offspring of this new union, a racetrack romance entitled In the Groove by Pamela Britton, goes on sale Tuesday ‚Äî just a few weeks before the Daytona 500….
“NASCAR very much portrays themselves as a family-oriented sport, and most romance fiction is about commitment and about the promise of happily-ever-after”…
In the Groove features down-on-his-luck NASCAR driver Lance Cooper and ex-kindergarten teacher Sarah Tingle. They meet when his car hits her. She gets a bump on the head. He’s driven to distraction. When he looks at Sarah, Cooper “feels like he has been shocked by a loose spark plug wire.”

Okay, we admit it…. after reading that quote, we REALLY want to read this book. The possibilities for car-related double entendres are endless. We bet Lance Copper goes on to check Sarah Tingle’s oil. Or at least take a look under her hood. Just thinking about it revs our engine. And you just know they are going to do it on the hood of the car.
If there’s a market for books about women who love thugs, we suppose there will be a market for books about women who love NASCAR dads.

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