Heroes or heroines as auto mechanics is a unique career showcased in romance novels. These characters aren’t afraid of getting their hands dirty, and also have an appreciation and deep love for auto repair. Their skilled touch with a motor also helps when they’re involved in a hot and a heavy romance, which is spotlighted with these four romance novels.

 

Crazy For You by Jennifer Crusie, published by St.


Martin’s Press in 1999. High school art teacher Quinn McKenzie is bored by everything, even Bill, her seemingly perfect boyfriend, the high school football and basketball coach. She decides to shaky up her life by adopting a stray dog and finally getting rid of an ugly orange couch she’s had for years. She also breaks up with Bill, who’s not ready to be tossed to the curb. Her best friend and former brother-in-law Nick supports Quinn and her life changes, but he becomes more protective when Bill won’t leave her alone. When Quinn started feeling something more for Quinn than friendship, she decides to shake up her sex life, and takes Nick along for the ride.

Crazy For You starts out as a romantic comedy that slowly becomes darker and more intense, especially with Bill, who isn’t the harmless ex-boyfriend readers are first introduced to. He’s the reason Quinn and Nick get together, which proves all too well how long time friends can be the best of lovers. Crazy For You won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Contemporary Novel in 1999.

Dark Fire(Dark Saga #6) by Christine Feehan, published by Love Spell in 2001, and then with Avon in 2010. Tempest “Rusti” Trine, the petite redhead is working a sweet job as a mechanic for a very popular band in the middle of a US tour. What she doesn’t know is that the musicians are vampires known as Carpathians. Oblivious to the fact, Tempest loves her new job. But then when she meets the sexy, larger than life Darius, the brother of the lead singer, and the man in charge of the group, she’s smitten by him, but also wary. Darius has spent centuries searching for his lifemate, who will bring color back into his world, and stop him from become a monster. Meeting Tempest makes him feel reborn because she’s his mate. Now he has to convince her of the fact, although she tries her best to reject the notion. But Darius won’t be ignored, especially since his family are being hunted by humans who want to eradicate his people from the Earth.

Dark Fire is one hot and sexy paranormal romance that has a unique spin on the vampire myth. Darius is the type of hero who could be every woman’s fantasy, although he can be overbearing and highhanded, especially when it comes to his mate. Tempest isn’t a pushover, and refuses to obey Darius, which makes for great sexual tension between the two. Readers will also feel a great kinship with Tempest, who grew up in foster care, and has been through some harsh traumas in her past, but is a survivor. Dark Fire won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Vampire Romance in 2001.

Start Me Up(Tumble Creek #2) by Victoria Dahl, published by HQN in 2009. Lori Love has run her father’s garage for the past ten years. She loves working on cars, but she’s restless. She wants to have a hot and heavy affair, but the choice in men in Tumble Creek are lacking big time. But then Quinn Jennings, her friend’s nerdy but adorable brother comes back home. He is the type of man who concentrates on something with every sense of his being on his work and doesn’t pay attention to what is happening around him. When Lori gets a makeover, Quinn notices, and he’s more than willing to prove to Lori he’s a red-blooded man, like any, who can appreciate a fine looking woman.

The joy in reading Start Me Up is Lori and Quinn’s attraction for one another, and where it takes them. The moment Quinn realizes his smitten with Lori, is a real treat. He allows Lori to lose all her inhibitions with him and doesn’t mind that he is essentially being used for sex. He quickly changes the rules and decides that Lori Love is going to keep him. He refuses to be cast aside. Start Me Up is the perfect book to rev up your engines because of the great love scenes and characters you can enjoy reading about.

Brainy and the Beast byJ.M Cartwright, published by Loose Id in 2013. Henry Travis is a robotics researcher who, when he meets Nick Shelton, an owner of a classic car garage, the sparks fly between the two. Henry is confused over his attraction toward the brash sexy mechanic, who’s dealing with too many personal problems to start a relationship with the nerdy scientist. Nick needs to concentrate on personal family issues, but there’s something about Henry that gets his motor running.

Start Me Up is a sexy gay romance where the main couple connects in incredible ways even though they’re total opposites. Nick and Henry’s chemistry is off the charts, which is a plus, especially when they’re both open to experimenting in the bedroom. There is also a nice subplot with Nick and his family that adds some emotional weight to the story that will have readers hooked until the very end.