AustLit

'Sometimes life or death decisions are easy. Alex Radford has a choice – borrow the money to treat her mother's rare and aggressive cancer from sleazy moneylender Hamish MacCameron. Or do nothing and watch her die. MacCameron has an agenda. He wants Alex in his bed, and he wants her to help him exact revenge on his sworn enemy, Robert Dryden. He is only too happy to lend her what she needs, but the strings attached form a tangled web from which Alex has little hope of escape. It's not all bad. Since she was a girl Alex has had one dream: to become a Formula 1 driver and show the boys how to drive a race car. MacCameron's money gives her a shot at fame, and in a move that scandalizes the F1 racing fraternity she becomes the new driver for Rob Dryden's struggling F1 team, Prometheus. Alex tries to keep her distance from Rob, knowing that one day she will need to betray one of the few people who ever had faith in her. But things begin to unravel when Hamish MacCameron is murdered and she and Rob are the top suspects on the list …' (Publisher's blurb)