[PREORDER] Be Quiet & Drive by Chelsea Reed [Indie Incentives Including Signed Book Plate and Art Print]]

Romantic tension with a darker edge; explicit level isn’t clearly stated in the blurb.

Giulianna Gardella, heir to the Hollow Point Brotherhood, is having the kind of week you don’t recover from quietly—she’s called off her wedding and faked her own death. A Texas road trip with her brother should be the closest thing to peace she’s getting… until she ends up trapped in the passenger seat with Gage: her former high school lover turned rival gang leader.

Now they’re navigating highway shoot-outs, high-octane chaos, and all the words they never said when it mattered. The question isn’t just whether they can survive the trip—it’s whether they can set aside old betrayals long enough to reach a common goal, or if their past is going to slam the brakes on any chance at a second-chance ending.

Suspenseful and strangely hilarious, this is a dark(ish) romance with a tender streak—about untethering from trauma, choosing who you’ll fight for, and asking: how far would you go for the ones you love?