Heavy Metal Lover

Heavy Metal Lover

After a motorcycle accident took Liv Shankly's right arm and pushed her struggling family further into medical debt, the promise of a massive payout from a mysterious donor lures her back into an illicit street racing scene known as the Drone Runs. All she has to do is reach the end of the course without getting felled by one of the Run's four hijacked police drones, and she can return home with a cut of the winnings, where she lives with an overworked father and a chronically ill mother. Except, she needs a benefactor to ride, and the only person willing to play the part is Vaughn Keaton, the reclusive, prodigious daughter of the oppressive High Mayor, whose only prerogative is to cheat her twin brother out of another foolish win. But Caldwell Keaton, High Mayor-in-waiting and debauched playboy, plays dirty, and when Liv takes home money that was meant as an illegal payment for another wealthy family (as well as a few new injuries), the only person powerful enough to keep Liv from incurring his wrath is Vaughn. Liv is dropped into a world of twisted family politics, corrupt science, and a tech-obsessed neon city that seems to want her dead. With a damaged metal arm and a target on her back, Liv agrees to work with Vaughn to create a revolutionary prosthetic, one with utilities and implications that could benefit not only Liv but the people she loves back home, too. However, technology that can change the world can also ruin it in the wrong hands, and Caldwell will do anything to take back what he has lost. "Fast bikes, complex family dynamics, and fantastic writing: Agajanian delivers another winner, set in a corrupt city drenched in rain and neon lights. Heavy Metal Lover is the lesbian sci-fi romance of my dreams, with both yearning and danger in spades. Don't miss it." -Allison Saft, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Dark and Drowning Tide "A slick, neon-drenched joyride, revving with defiance and heat. Agajanian's thrilling cyberpunk adventure sizzles off the page, an electrifying sapphic heart at its core that's as tenacious as it is sultry. Heavy Metal Lover is an absolute live wire of a book that will leave you buzzing." -K. M. Fajardo, author of Local Heavens "Heavy Metal Lover is an edge-of-your-seat cyberpunk thriller with prose you can sink your teeth into. Agajanian treats us to an achingly sexy sapphic romance, adrenaline-fueled motorcycle racing, and political intrigue, all bathed in the rain-wet glitter of a near-future city. It's magnetic, addictive, and grounded in the what ifs of our own reality. This is science fiction done right." -Meg Smitherman, author of Thrum and Entity