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For a hundred and eighteen years, nobody has been allowed in. This September, for nine days only, forty rally cars are. The Sperrgebiet is the diamond...

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Price: £9.90. Language: English. Categories: Romance.

For a hundred and eighteen years, nobody has been allowed in. This September, for nine days only, forty rally cars are.

The Sperrgebiet is the diamond exclusion zone on the Namibian coast: twenty-six thousand square kilometres of dune, gravel plain and fog that has been fenced, patrolled and closed since 1908. It has been photographed from orbit and never driven.

Now the mining authority is opening it once, for a single cross-country rally, under rules nobody has raced under before - no reconnaissance, no maps, and a road book issued sealed thirty minutes before each start.

Ilka Reuter has a self-built buggy, nine people's money in it, and a reputation nobody in the paddock will sit beside.

Two years ago, leading her home rally, she was told to hold full throttle over a crest she could not see beyond - and she lifted, and the woman in the seat next to her has walked with a stick ever since. She wants one clean finish and a way back into a car.

She cannot enter without a navigator, and there is exactly one man in the world who will take the seat.

Anton Faber is the best road book navigator of his generation and the least employable man in the sport: fourteen years, eleven drivers, two world titles his name is not attached to, and a contract that will shelve him for three years unless he finishes this one event.

He has crossed nine deserts and could not tell you what a single one of them looked like, because for every kilometre of every crossing his eyes were on the page. Nine days. Three thousand one hundred kilometres.

One cockpit a metre wide, forty-one degrees of heat, and a voice on an intercom that is the only thing standing between a driver and the ground she cannot see.

They are locked in by a signature, they cannot withdraw, and neither of them expects the cockpit to be the only place either of them can tell the truth. Then, on the eighth day, forty seconds of two-year-old data is published - and it is not a lie, which is precisely the problem.

EYES UP is a slow-burn sports romance about two competent, damaged, extremely private adults who are forced to work at a hundred and forty kilometres an hour on nothing but each other's word.

It is about the oldest desert on earth, a place no one has been allowed to see, and the one question that matters when the ground runs out in front of you and there is no time left to check: do you believe her?

Set in a landscape you will not forget and built on a partnership you will want to see survive, this is a novel for readers who like their romance earned, their heroines competent, and their endings closed.

If it keeps you up too late, please leave a review and tell somebody else where the fence is.

Book details

Details: 250 pages, about 69,948 words, published by Julian Ashvale, publication date 8 September 2026.

Estimated reading time: about 4.5 hours.

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