Books in Full Throttle 2 series

The last thing on 16-year-old Jess DeLand's wish list is a boyfriend.She'd have to be crazy to think any guy would look twice at her.Besides, there are more important things to hope for, like a job working on cars and an end to her mom's drinking. Foster care is a constantthreat, and Jess is willing to sacrifice anything to stay out of thesystem. When luck hands her the chance to work on a race car, she findsherself rushing full throttle into a world of opportunities--including aboy who doesn't mind the grease under her fingernails. The question is,can a girl who keeps herself locked up tighter than Richard Petty'sracing secrets open up enough to risk friendship and her first romance?"The first romance is captured beautifully--just the right combination of natural and awkward, of eager and scared." ~ Bob Martin, writing professor, Pacific Northwest College of ArtWhile this is Book 3 in the Full Throttle Series, it can be read without first reading the previous two.

Now that Jess DeLand has escaped her alcoholic mother's grip, all she wants is a chance to be normal. To hang out with her wisecracking-but-intuitive boyfriend Cody, learn as much she can about restoring cars from her mentor Kasey, and fill in as substitute big sister to Rhett when her friend Teri Sue goes off to college. But when her past crashes headlong into her present, all hopes of normal go spinning off into the weeds. Jess's attempts to spare her friends--and herself--from the things she'd rather keep hidden, threaten to destroy the new life she's built. Maybe normal is too much to ask for.Book 4 in the Full Throttle series