The Red Flag

His father owns the team. His teammate owns his attention. And the sponsors own everything else.

Reid West was born into elite motorsport royalty and raised on conditional love. One brother erased from the family. Another written off. Reid is the last West still racing — and after a televised meltdown in Austria, his father has decided that his youngest is a problem to be managed, not a driver to be trusted.

The management plan? Oliver Carter.

Ollie is everything Reid isn't — composed, strategic, and fluent in the language of sponsors who expect their investments to behave. He's also hiding a contract that gives his former manager leverage over every professional decision he makes. And a body that responds to Reid West in ways that could end both their careers.

They're supposed to hate each other. They're contractually required to pretend they don't. And somewhere between the staged photo ops and the corporate surveillance system tracking their every movement — logging every route, flagging every deviation, turning every second they spend alone together into a data point — pretending stops being the problem.

It starts with a fight in a gym at 2 a.m. that turns into something raw and desperate and ruinous. Then it's Reid's hand on Ollie's thigh under a press conference table, neither of them pulling away — knowing every stolen touch is a contractual breach, every private moment a logged event. And they still can't stop.

Reid is battling a father who sees him as a PR liability. Ollie is battling an ex who sees him as unfinished business. And both of them are losing the only fight that matters: the one where they pretend the man in the other car isn't becoming the reason they stay.

The Red Flag is a scorching, dual-POV M/M romance set in the high-pressure world of elite motorsport. It's rivals to lovers with teeth — where the dynasty is crumbling, the contracts have claws, and the sex is the most honest thing either of them has.

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