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📖 Paperback Edition — Six clauses. Seven weeks. One conflict of interest she declares before it exists.

Fourteen seconds. That is how long it takes Matteo Vieri to grab a rival by the lapels at a sponsor gala, cost Vesper Racing a third of its season, and give one board member exactly the excuse he wanted to fire him.

Sabine Keller has been sporting director for twenty-three days. Her title still says provisional. She does not do apology videos. She drafts.

Two pages. Six clauses. No confrontation, verbal or otherwise. Every grievance in writing, to her, within the hour, and she answers inside twenty-four or she is the one in breach. Three sessions with a psychologist he chooses. A fixed ladder of penalties that costs the same whether she likes him that week or not.

He signs it with her fountain pen, leaning over her desk, close enough to count. Everything has a weak point, Director. Cars. Contracts. The people who draft them.

Then you have seven weeks to find mine.

From Monza to Singapore to Austin, the most combustible man on the grid learns to listen first, walk away, and fill in the form. And when he tells her plainly that he wants her, she does the most Sabine thing imaginable: she declares a conflict of interest before anything has happened, hands every decision about him to a panel, and has the door countersigned.

Behind it, she tells him where to put his hands. He finds out how quiet his head goes when someone else decides. She finds out what it is to stop being careful for an hour.

Then the whole agreement leaks with photographs beside every clause, a director with a lime in his drink asks her to step aside, and Matteo does the one thing she asked him not to.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • MF Forbidden Formula One Romance by Tessa Valehart

Tropes: Boss × Employee • Sporting Director × Driver • Conduct Agreement • Forbidden Workplace Romance • Older Heroine • Age Gap • Ice Queen • Hothead Hero • Instruction Kink • Praise Kink • Competence Kink • Control Swap • Grovel Done Right • No Cheating • HEA

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter.

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MF scenes, including oral sex, solo scenes, instruction and praise play, edging and orgasm denial, light bondage with a safe word, power exchange in both directions, and unprotected sex between committed partners; all on-page sex is consensual and negotiated), a public brawl at a sponsor gala and the online harassment of a young woman caught up in it, a hero with a history of anger, workplace power dynamics handled through a formal recusal, a leaked private document and media intrusion, a brief third-act separation, alcohol, and strong language. No sexual violence, no dub-con, no cheating. Intended for readers 18+.

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