
Dirty Hands, Clean Sheets
FF Contemporary Romance
by Aurora North

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Pairing: FF (Sapphic)
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno
Tropes: Blue-Collar x White-Collar, Grumpy/Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Small Town, Praise Kink, Class Tension, Body Worship, Slow Burn
Grease-stained hands. Designer heels. The good girl who needs to be told she’s enough.
Amelia Park didn’t come home for the funeral. She came home for the estate — the falling-apart house, the half-finished car, and the to-do list with her name on it three times, crossed out and rewritten by a father who died waiting for her to call.
Casey Holt didn’t expect anything from the city-girl lawyer who showed up at her garage in silk and heels. She expected even less when the lawyer turned out to be the girl she’d watched from the back row of a high school gym for four years — the valedictorian, the honors student, the one who left and never looked back.
Now Amelia needs Casey to restore her father’s beloved 1970 Chevelle SS. Casey needs Amelia’s sweat equity to offset the labor costs. And the deal they strike — evening garage lessons, hands-on work, forced proximity in a shop that smells like motor oil and unfinished business — is about to turn both their lives inside out.
Because Casey’s hands don’t just fix engines. They fix everything. And when she calls Amelia “good girl” for the first time — low and rough, right against her ear — Amelia discovers she’s been starving for praise her whole life and never knew it.
But Amelia’s career is calling her back to New York. Casey’s been left before by women who treated her like a phase. And when class, family, and fear collide at a dinner table, they’ll have to decide: is this a chapter — or the whole book?
You’ll love this book if you enjoy:
✅ Blue-collar mechanic x white-collar lawyer FF romance
✅ Grumpy/sunshine with a class-tension edge
✅ “Good girl” praise kink that escalates from accidental to devastating
✅ Forced proximity in a garage (and a kitchen counter, and a car hood…)
✅ Found family small-town warmth
✅ Explicit heat that advances character (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ — graphic, emotional, LOUD)
✅ A heroine who learns to stay and a love interest who learns to be kept
✅ HEA guaranteed
⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes including praise kink, light restraint, and body worship), strong language, parental death and grief, class tension, and depictions of anxiety and self-doubt. Intended for readers 18+.
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Chapter One: The Last Wrench
The wrench smelled like motor oil and something older. Something that lived in the grain of the metal itself, worked into the grooves by years of grip and torque and hands that knew what they were doing.
Amelia Park’s hands did not know what they were doing.
She stood in her father’s shop—her shop now, according to the estate lawyer who’d called at seven this morning like death operated on business hours—holding a wrench she couldn’t name.
But her father was in the ground as of yesterday, and the wrench was just cold steel in a hand that smelled like Aesop hand cream and regret.
Everyone at the service said she was so strong.
She wanted to put her fist through the drywall.
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Good Girl, Merry Christmas — A scene TOO HOT for retailers
Casey and Amelia’s first Christmas Eve together. Lingerie, candlelight, the filthiest praise this side of the Mississippi, and the moment Casey finally lets herself be the one who’s held.
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