Furious

Jamie Pacton · Rebecca Podos

Jul 2024 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Jen Zhao and Jeremy Carlisle Parker

About this audiobook

After years racing go-karts and looking up to her mother, a celebrity Formula 1 racer, Jojo Emerson-Boyd should be starting her own racing career. But when she loses her mom in a tragic crash, Jojo’s future comes to a screeching halt. Now her dad won’t let her get a license, much less race. Instead, she’s stuck working at her grandmother’s mechanic shop in the sleepy small town of Dell’s Hollow.

But Jojo’s heart quickens when Motorcyle Girl Eliana “El” Blum shows up at the shop. El grew up on the motocross circuit sidelines, watching her sister and idol Maxine compete. When El mysteriously loses all contact with Max, she’s determined to find her, with her first clue leading straight to the mechanic shop, and to Jojo.

United by fate, the two quickly bond over Mario Kart showdowns and the Fast & Furious films. As their friendship shifts into something more, they’ll have to confront both their growing romance and the grief woven into their complicated families if they hope to chase down their dreams and make it across the finish line.

About the author

Jamie Pacton is an award-winning author. Her YA contemporary books include Lucky Girl and The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly. Her YA fantasy novels include The Absinthe Underground and The Vermilion Emporium. Currently, she lives in Wisconsin with her family. Find her at www.jamiepacton.com or @jamiepacton on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter.

Rebecca Podos is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of YA novels, including The Mystery of Hollow Places, Like Water, The Wise and the Wicked, and From Dust, a Flame. She is a co-editor of the YA romance anthology Fools in Love and has a short story featured in the collection At Midnight. By day, she's an agent at the Rees Literary Agency in Boston and can be found on her website Rebeccapodos.com.