The Codex of Speed

• When second-year engineering student Damian Hale gets behind the wheel, the world finally makes sense. Speed is his escape, and the underground racing scene is his secret refuge - a life he hides even from the friends who think they know him.
• Serena Ward is part of that same circle of friends, someone Damian talks to but never truly lets in. They share easy moments but not trust - not with the shadows in his past and not with the distance he keeps from everyone, especially girls from the faculty.
• But everything changes the day Serena returns home to her quiet village and finds it torn apart. Her parents have vanished without a trace. No clues. No answers. Only fear.
• Stumbling through the city in shock, she crosses paths with Damian - a coincidence that becomes the turning point of both their lives. With no one else to lean on, Serena accepts his help... and Damian steps into a mystery far darker than he imagined.
• As they search for the truth, the walls between them start to crack. Serena discovers the hidden world Damian lives in, and Damian finds himself drawn closer to the one person who makes him question the secrets he's always guarded.
•But some secrets are dangerous.
Some roads lead to places you can't return from.
And in the world of street racing and buried pasts, someone may know exactly what happened to Serena's parents.
•To save them - and each other - Damian and Serena will have to chase answers through asphalt, lies, and shadows... before the truth catches up to them first.