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Throttle & Thrust #3
The Red Flag
The Wildest West has just crossed a line he can't uncross.
When he deliberately crashes into teammate Ollie Carter in a fit of pure spite, Reid West expects retaliation. Maybe a transfer request. Definitely a punch to the face.
Instead, Ollie grins and asks if he's okay.
The eternally optimistic Brit should be Reid's perfect victim. Instead, he responds to Reid's vicious insults with terrible puns, meets cruelty with patience, and somehow makes Reid actually look forward to their daily battles in the garage. Ollie sees potential where everyone else sees problems—including Reid himself.
But Reid's walls aren't just emotional armor. They're survival mechanisms built from years of living under his father's impossible expectations and the crushing weight of the West racing legacy. He's spent his whole life learning he's not worth fighting for, and he'll be damned if he lets some sunshine-bright teammate prove him wrong.
What starts as professional rivalry becomes something infinitely more dangerous when Reid realizes he's falling for the one person immune to his self-destruction.
When Reid's final meltdown threatens to destroy them both, Ollie must decide if his love is strong enough to save someone determined to stay broken. And Reid must choose between the familiar pain of isolation and the terrifying possibility that maybe—just maybe—he deserves to be loved.
Sometimes the most dangerous thing on the track isn't the car hurtling toward you at 200 mph. It's the teammate who refuses to give up on you.
Book 3 in the Throttle & Thrust series Perfect for fans of intense sports romance, grumpy/sunshine dynamics, and enemies-to-lovers with authentic elite racing insider details.
When he deliberately crashes into teammate Ollie Carter in a fit of pure spite, Reid West expects retaliation. Maybe a transfer request. Definitely a punch to the face.
Instead, Ollie grins and asks if he's okay.
The eternally optimistic Brit should be Reid's perfect victim. Instead, he responds to Reid's vicious insults with terrible puns, meets cruelty with patience, and somehow makes Reid actually look forward to their daily battles in the garage. Ollie sees potential where everyone else sees problems—including Reid himself.
But Reid's walls aren't just emotional armor. They're survival mechanisms built from years of living under his father's impossible expectations and the crushing weight of the West racing legacy. He's spent his whole life learning he's not worth fighting for, and he'll be damned if he lets some sunshine-bright teammate prove him wrong.
What starts as professional rivalry becomes something infinitely more dangerous when Reid realizes he's falling for the one person immune to his self-destruction.
When Reid's final meltdown threatens to destroy them both, Ollie must decide if his love is strong enough to save someone determined to stay broken. And Reid must choose between the familiar pain of isolation and the terrifying possibility that maybe—just maybe—he deserves to be loved.
Sometimes the most dangerous thing on the track isn't the car hurtling toward you at 200 mph. It's the teammate who refuses to give up on you.
Book 3 in the Throttle & Thrust series Perfect for fans of intense sports romance, grumpy/sunshine dynamics, and enemies-to-lovers with authentic elite racing insider details.
- GenresSports
354 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 20, 2026
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Ryan Reed
8 books17 followersRyan Reed writes spicy M/M romance that pushes boundaries and explores social taboos. His stories feature authentic, multidimensional characters grappling with the complexities of attraction and sexuality. When he’s not writing, Ryan enjoys eating tacos while stargazing on clear Texas nights.
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April 6, 2026
Reid the last standing brother in the American driving empire. Struggles with the shadow of his brothers and Oliver the British import with corporate pressure. Both pushed to follow an over structural over bearing management team and slowly fall in love.
Ok so I loved book one, I felt like I understood the struggles and issues that Wyatt dealt with over his removal from his family team and building his own space with the rival team. The romance built and felt real.
Book two I did have some struggle with bit that was due to the characters choices the over all story was fine. The story had time to breath and the couple felt earned.
But this book was kinda of a mess. I thought this was going to be about Reid struggling with being the last son in the dad Cash's control. That we would see more of that relationship up close, seeing Cash push and lose another son or finally work with one of them. They are hardly together and I didn't feel Cash was in the book much at all.
The big elephant in the room was the corporate management team who very quickly put both drives on 24/7 watch and it's never really explained why. They are being constantly watch and controlled by a team and it feels overly complicated, the driving descriptions are also messy in this one it jumps around a lot
Also not sure if it was just errors with the kindle version but the book had so many mistakes characters being in a different place in the next paragraph or one section that was a complete repeat of the paragraph above. Made read this story had to follow.
I didn't feel anything for the relationship because it didn't feel like it built up at all. The constant talk of the schedule and his they were deviating from the plan was so tiring and boring.
Seeing Oliver be stuck between his corporate hand up and him life now was interesting but never full used and why was Cash the boss not actually the boss.
Left very confused and underwhelmed
Ok so I loved book one, I felt like I understood the struggles and issues that Wyatt dealt with over his removal from his family team and building his own space with the rival team. The romance built and felt real.
Book two I did have some struggle with bit that was due to the characters choices the over all story was fine. The story had time to breath and the couple felt earned.
But this book was kinda of a mess. I thought this was going to be about Reid struggling with being the last son in the dad Cash's control. That we would see more of that relationship up close, seeing Cash push and lose another son or finally work with one of them. They are hardly together and I didn't feel Cash was in the book much at all.
The big elephant in the room was the corporate management team who very quickly put both drives on 24/7 watch and it's never really explained why. They are being constantly watch and controlled by a team and it feels overly complicated, the driving descriptions are also messy in this one it jumps around a lot
Also not sure if it was just errors with the kindle version but the book had so many mistakes characters being in a different place in the next paragraph or one section that was a complete repeat of the paragraph above. Made read this story had to follow.
I didn't feel anything for the relationship because it didn't feel like it built up at all. The constant talk of the schedule and his they were deviating from the plan was so tiring and boring.
Seeing Oliver be stuck between his corporate hand up and him life now was interesting but never full used and why was Cash the boss not actually the boss.
Left very confused and underwhelmed
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