One Track Mind

by Bethany Campbell

The Halesboro Speedway has been in Lori Garland's family for generations. And thanks to a last-minute offer, she may be able to save the debt-ridden race track. Then she discovers who her mystery buyer is—sports agent Kane Ledger, the bad-boy rebel she loved and lost.

The guy from the wrong side of the tracks likes being in the driver's seat for the first time in his life. Now Kane can show his North Carolina hometown—and the girl who turned her back on him—what a success he has become. But seeing Lori again is opening old wounds…and rekindling desire. Is history about to repeat itself? Or can Kane and Lori restore the race track to its former glory and become the winning team they were meant to be?

Genres: Romance, Harlequin

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Sally McCluskey (aka Bethany Campbell) was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, as an only child. She attended college beginning as a chemistry major, after quickly switching her major to English. She obtainded a B.A. from Wayne State Teachers College, and an M.A. in English from the University of Arkansas. She met her husband, Dan Borengasser, while both were graduate students at Northern Illinois University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in English.

Sally taught and in her spare time wrote, but after marriage, the couple moved to an area where teaching jobs were scarce, and she turned to writing full time. She wrote poetry, articles, short stories, and contributed to textbooks, but finally decided to try a romance novel at the urging of her mom and aunt, both avid romance fans. To Sally’s amazement, Harlequin bought her story After the Stars Fall and published it in 1985 under the pseudonym Bethany Campbell. She has also written as Lisa Harris. She has won three Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards, three Romantic Times Reviewer Awards, a Maggie Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence.

She lived with her husband in northwest Arkansas. Her husband, who serves as Vice President of Ozark Film & Video Productions, also writes, and has had several short films and plays produced.

Reviews

[Judy · Rating 5 out of 5]

One Track Mind by Bethany Campbell
Harlequin NASCAR Library
NASCAR: Hidden Legacies Book 7
Kane Ledger grew up poor in a single parent home, a mother who found booze and men more important than her children. Falling in love with the town princess and having her return his love, when he was seventeen, was the highlight of his life. Her rejection of him was the worst thing….or not. It pushed Kane out of the small town of Halesboro and he went from poor to wealthy through the years. He’s now returning to his hometown for closure and maybe revenge. Only revenge don’t feel as good as he thought it would.

Lori Garland made a promise to her dad before he died and she wasn’t going to be able to keep it. The racetrack that was his legacy, his pride and joy, was too far in debt and too far gone. She finally put it for sale but with the stipulation that it would remain a racetrack. She had three days left before she would break her promise. The only offer she had was a buyer who would tear the track down. And then everything changed.

Kane is introduced into this series in book five, Over The Wall, when his half-sister Stacy Evans comes to search him out. The emotions run high in this story. Kane has gone from poor to rich while Lori has lost all she had. The murder investigation is still on and no new leads on the kidnapping from thirty years ago. The series continues with two characters who have been introduced in earlier books in Within Striking Distance. Becky Peters and Jake McMaster, who is related to Patsy Grosso.
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[Crystal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too much build up, not enough action.

[Caitlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

What can I say, I'm a sucker for a NASCAR Harlequin on an airplane.