The Girl Who Fixed the Ferris Wheel

About this book:

Maya Vance makes a living resurrecting dead machines, but the Ocean Star Ferris Wheel might be the one that breaks her. One hundred ten feet of 1954 Eli Bridge Company steel, condemned by the city and rotting in the Atlantic salt, it's a nightmare of stripped gears, perforated struts, and a drive shaft turned to grinding paste. Arthur Hale wants it spinning by July Fourth. His daughter Eleanor wants the books to balance. Maya just wants to know if the metal holds.

Eleanor Hale didn't come home to watch a rusted monument bankrupt her father's legacy—she came to liquidate it. But the grease-stained specialist crawling through the wheel's guts sees something Eleanor stopped looking for: a skeleton worth saving. As they strip away seventy years of grime and bad repairs, the chemistry between them sparks hotter than a cutting torch. Maya reads steel like poetry; Eleanor reads spreadsheets like gospel. Together, they might just be enough to bring the Star back to life—if the secrets buried in its struts don't tear them apart first.

From the author of *The Girl Who Fixed the Ferris Wheel* comes a love story forged in salt air and machine oil, where every replaced rivet is a vote for the future and every shared glance across a gearbox is a risk worth taking. For readers who crave competent women, industrial atmosphere, and romance that earns its happy ending one bolt at a time.