ROMANCE

Thrill Ride

Kensington. Mar. 2025. 336p. ISBN 9781496750846. pap. $18.95. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
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DEBUT After Charlotte Gates is laid off from her job as a theme park designer for DreamUs (the company behind the world’s best theme parks), she returns home to her parents’ house to regroup while she temporarily works at her aunt and uncle’s small theme park, Land of Legends. Charlotte loves Legends and practically grew up there. But her departure to the bigger and better-funded DreamUs hurt her family, and there are plenty of bridges she now must mend. When she finds out Legends is seeking outside funding to grow and maintain the park, Charlotte is terrified that a stuffed suit will come in and ruin everything. The stuffed suit turns out to be the very attractive Gregory Binns, who has never been to a theme park, let along ridden a roller coaster. It becomes Charlotte’s mission to turn the uptight Gregory into a Land of Legends lover so that he doesn’t ruin the park’s charm. Ratcliffe’s (The Art of Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands) fiction debut features interesting characters along with clearly well-researched details about building and running a theme park.
VERDICT Ratcliffe writes the romance that theme park fans have been waiting for, and it doesn’t disappoint.
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