The Paddock Club: Volume 2
A Novel
Will be published approx. on 13. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-6682-1066-6 (ISBN)
Description
A Formula 1 romance set in the Slipstream universe following Cat Cromwell, a fashion influencer on a secret mission to ruin a driver's reputation, but she may fall for his rival instead.
"This is the steamy rom-com every F1 girlie has been waiting for." -Sarah Adams * "Deliciously addictive!" -Ellie K. Wilde * "The Paddock Club is one of my top reads of the year." -Tarah DeWitt * "Madge Maril is a delightful voice in romance!" -Chelsea Curto * "Cat and Faust are a masterpiece in on-page chemistry." -Peyton Corinne
As a professional heartbreaker, Cat Cromwell knows she'll never fall in love-but she'll pretend to, for a price. A former fashion model in New York City with a side hustle charming and then dumping the World's Worst Men, Cat is offered the chance to pull off her biggest con yet: date and dump F1 driver Bernard Baudelaire...who recently left his very angry ex at the altar.
Raised on Formula 1 by a single father herself, Cat is excited to infiltrate the ivory tower that is the Paddock Club through fashion, and also to get back at another powerful, spoiled man who feels entitled to treat women like playthings, something she has undertaken for women and girls since her early modeling days and her family's financial struggles. But Cat's perfect plan hits the brakes when Bernard leaves the racing team-and she's assigned to work with Faust Ferreira Sanchez instead, a moody F1 driver recovering after an apocalyptically embarrassing year in his career.
Faust is nothing like the men Cat is paid to date and loves to hate. He's quiet. Honest. And absurdly hot in an all-black suit. Worse, Faust is convinced that Cat isn't who she claims to be. And he's particularly interested in why she's flirting with his ex-teammate and biggest racing rival.
As flying between fashion shows and racing circuits wears Cat's carefully crafted mask thin, she finds herself drawn further into Faust's steamy game of cat and mouse, and the dangerously real passion they ignite in each other. But with shadows from Cat's checkered past looming in the pit lane, can she find a way to break her target's heart without losing the first honest man she's ever known? Or will staying in the Paddock Club be the first scam she can't pull off?
"This is the steamy rom-com every F1 girlie has been waiting for." -Sarah Adams * "Deliciously addictive!" -Ellie K. Wilde * "The Paddock Club is one of my top reads of the year." -Tarah DeWitt * "Madge Maril is a delightful voice in romance!" -Chelsea Curto * "Cat and Faust are a masterpiece in on-page chemistry." -Peyton Corinne
As a professional heartbreaker, Cat Cromwell knows she'll never fall in love-but she'll pretend to, for a price. A former fashion model in New York City with a side hustle charming and then dumping the World's Worst Men, Cat is offered the chance to pull off her biggest con yet: date and dump F1 driver Bernard Baudelaire...who recently left his very angry ex at the altar.
Raised on Formula 1 by a single father herself, Cat is excited to infiltrate the ivory tower that is the Paddock Club through fashion, and also to get back at another powerful, spoiled man who feels entitled to treat women like playthings, something she has undertaken for women and girls since her early modeling days and her family's financial struggles. But Cat's perfect plan hits the brakes when Bernard leaves the racing team-and she's assigned to work with Faust Ferreira Sanchez instead, a moody F1 driver recovering after an apocalyptically embarrassing year in his career.
Faust is nothing like the men Cat is paid to date and loves to hate. He's quiet. Honest. And absurdly hot in an all-black suit. Worse, Faust is convinced that Cat isn't who she claims to be. And he's particularly interested in why she's flirting with his ex-teammate and biggest racing rival.
As flying between fashion shows and racing circuits wears Cat's carefully crafted mask thin, she finds herself drawn further into Faust's steamy game of cat and mouse, and the dangerously real passion they ignite in each other. But with shadows from Cat's checkered past looming in the pit lane, can she find a way to break her target's heart without losing the first honest man she's ever known? Or will staying in the Paddock Club be the first scam she can't pull off?
Reviews / Votes
"Gorgeously written and so amazingly sexy my Kindle caught on fire! This is the steamy romcom every F1 girlie has been waiting for!"-Sarah Adams, New York Times bestselling author of The Cheat Sheet
"Cinematic, fresh, and sexy from start to finish, The Paddock Club is one of my top reads of the year. Madge Maril is a force to be reckoned with."
-Tarah DeWitt, USA Today bestselling author of Left of Forever "Madge Maril is a must read author. Banter and romance to keep your heart racing & the emotional punch I long for in a love story. Cat and Faust are a masterpiece in on page chemistry. I'm deeply obsessed with her sharp wit and clever turn of phrase, I'll read anything she writes!"
-Peyton Corinne, USA Today bestselling author of Unsteady
"Fresh, unique, and full of forced proximity readers will go wild for... With sharp wit, the push and pull of will they or won't they, a hero who yearns and perfect secret identities, Madge Maril is a delightful voice in romance!"
-Chelsea Curto, USA Today bestselling author of Face Off "Deliciously addictive! The Paddock Club feels like a clandestine peek into the glamorous world of Formula 1, with romantic tension that absolutely sizzles and whip-smart prose that glitters off the page. I loved every minute with Cat and Faust!"
-Ellie K. Wilde, author of Only in Your Dreams
"Madge Maril is my new instant buy. Heroines to die for, and heroes that will drive off with your heart. Sports romance at its absolute best."
-Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author of The Frame-Up
"Madge Maril is the queen of Formula 1 romance! Punchy, propulsive, and full of toe-curling chemistry, The Paddock Club had me enraptured from start to finish. It's a novel for the fashion and F1 enthusiasts, but it's also a story about what it means to give up control, when that control no longer serves us. I raced through Cat and Faust's electrifying love story, and can't wait for whatever Maril serves us up next."
-Katie Naymon, author of You Between the Lines
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
233 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6682-1066-6 (9781668210666)
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Madge Maril is a writer, editor, and Byronic hero enthusiast whose work has been published by Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and more. Previously a beauty and fashion journalist, Madge fell back in love with fiction through fandom and has been writing stories about big feelings ever since. She lives in Ohio with her husband and cat.