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First to Finish
Series: Pole Position
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Brief Description
The stakes have never been higher in this spicy F1 forced proximity romcom for fans of Heated Rivalry! 🏎️🏎️🏎️ Race car driver Johannes Muller is on a hot streak this season and seems destined to claim the championship win … until his performance unexpectedly falters. Gone...
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The stakes have never been higher in this spicy F1 forced proximity romcom for fans of Heated Rivalry!
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A queer MM F1 romance for fans of spicy forced proximity romcoms and formula 1 in 2026!
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Description
The stakes have never been higher in this spicy F1 forced proximity romcom for fans of Heated Rivalry!
🏎️🏎️🏎️
Race car driver Johannes Muller is on a hot streak this season and seems destined to claim the championship win … until his performance unexpectedly falters. Gone is his cool confidence – on the track he can barely qualify, let alone take home the trophy.
The team’s race engineer, Caleb Hughes, is determined to get his star driver back in pole position, but soon the sparks flying over the radio are more chemistry than competition.
In a sport where everyone gives it their all at all times, it’s not long before Johannes and Caleb realise that their racing line is leading them towards a collision they won’t be able to walk away from unscathed…
Tropes
- Opposites attract
- Forced Proximity
- Spicy 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
- Sports romance
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Everyone LOVES First to Finish!
'What an incredible second book for this terrific series!! I couldn’t get enough of Johannes and Caleb’s forbidden romance and savoured every minute of it!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Completely captured my heart from the very first pages' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'OMFG IT WAS … SUCH A PERFECT BOOK' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I inhaled this story ' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Charming [and] steamy' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I had a blast the entire time I was reading it!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'A refreshing, tension-filled MM romance with depth, heart, and just the right amount of angst.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Wow. Wow. Wow. This book blew me away … I cannot explain how satisfying this book was to my brain.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Emotional and heartwarming' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Absolutely swoon worthy!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Series: Pole Position
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First to Finish
The stakes have never been higher in this spicy F1 forced proximity romcom for fans of Heated Rivalry! 🏎️🏎️🏎️ Race car driver Johannes Muller is on a hot streak this season and seems destined to claim the championship win … until his performance unexpectedly falters. Gone is his cool confidence – on the track he can barely qualify, let alone...PaperbackSold Out
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780008684884
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: One More Chapter
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Rebecca J. Caffery is a queer romance author from Birmingham, UK, whose stories celebrate love, electric chemistry, fierce emotion and found families. She rediscovered her passion for writing in 2017 during a study abroad year in Canada, and she’s been writing one too many enemies-to-lovers tropes since.
Rebecca is best known for her high-octane F1 romances, Pole Position (2024) and First to Finish (2026), where fast cars meet even faster hearts. With hopes to expand her writing repertoire into small-town romances, she continues to craft stories that celebrate queer love in all its intensity and joy.
When she’s not writing, Rebecca can be found devouring queer romance novels, binge-watching romantic dramas and romcoms, or passionately (read screaming at her TV) supporting Arsenal Women’s football team and McLaren Formula One Team.
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