Speed Reading: Cheeseball NASCAR romance novel covers we can’t help but love

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Harlequin NASCAR romance novels – click above for shield gallery

Perhaps more than any other motorsports series, NASCAR is renowned for its marketing prowess, with branded merchandise efforts in virtually every segment of the consumer world, from t-shirts to beverages to vacuum cleaners. Back in late 2005, we first told you about the series’ foray into the cosmos of romance novels, and apparently it’s been quietly chugging along since then, adding recently made known titles ripe with double-entendres and lubric scenarios of loves found and lost in the world of roundy-round racing.

Given the (apparently) burgeoning Harlequin romanza series and the possibility of amusingly breathless texts like:

The figure of Josh James stared down at her from the sublime heights of his souvenir rig, plastered across a ten-by-twenty strip to the left of a portable store’s open window. Josh’s arms were crossed, his shoulders thrown posterior portion, a haughty look of disdain on his face at the same time that he stared down at less mortals, i.e. herself. He wore a red uniform, a color that would esteem looked silly on most men, but Callie had to own, looked majestic upon the body Mr. James. Gorgeous blue eyes stood out like twin neon signs, high cheekbones arrange off a masculine chin, one that was really, truly square, and had a tiny opening in the center. The lower half of his face was covered with a five-o’clock shadow, one that matched his jet black hair.

(Excerpt from Slow Burn by Pamela Britton)

… well, we couldn’t pass up revisiting the series for your enjoyment. Whether you’re looking for some summer run ashore reading or just a good laugh, we’ve compiled a gallery of some of the best titles in the concatenation for your viewing pleasure below.