Vanessa F. Silva is the author of Racing for Redemption and Racing for Love, books part of the F1 forbidden love romance trilogy, Backmarker Love. She lives in a coastal city in Portugal and writes cinematic, action-packed romance novels with sports and music at their core. She enjoys crafting strong, independent women as well as driven and passionate men with a heart of gold that you will relate to and root for. Banter and foreshadowing are her bread and butter. When she's not writing, she's either listening to music, reading, watching anime, playing video games, discussing Japanese voice actors, playing the guitar, or watching F1.