Crashing into You: Chapters 1–7

by Rocky Callen
When tragedy strikes, 17-year-old street racer Leti Rivera blames herself for her brother's accident and vows to give up racing. But will she be able to?

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  1. collateral
    accompanying; following as a consequence
    He’s still light-years under Derek’s gaze, but he is built like a tank, and he is always ready to smash right through anything even if his knuckles suffer the collateral damage.
  2. palatable
    acceptable to the taste or mind
    I want to rearrange his face into something more palatable.
  3. sentinel
    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
    Some of the guys go and stand behind Derek like sentinels, ready for command.
  4. intonation
    rise and fall of the voice pitch
    He says it so frankly, without intonation or inflection, that it takes me a moment to register the weight of his words.
  5. inflection
    the modification of pitch, tone, or volume when speaking
    He says it so frankly, without intonation or inflection, that it takes me a moment to register the weight of his words.
  6. tentative
    hesitant or lacking confidence; unsettled in mind or opinion
    This wasn’t how I pictured our alliance being forged, but the discomfort that clings to him seems to settle into something more tentative.
  7. dilapidated
    in a state of decay, ruin, or deterioration
    This place—this ugly, dilapidated, graffitied place with oil stains as front doormats—is home.
  8. monstrosity
    something hideous or frightful
    He’s wearing some sort of color-clashing monstrosity and yet, like always, he can pull it off.
  9. abashed
    feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious
    Monster looks abashed by the inclusion.
  10. abysmal
    exceptionally bad or displeasing
    While he fits the definition of being beautiful, successful, and admired, he is, without a doubt, an abysmal human.
  11. blasphemous
    grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
    Shelby Watson is holy and I ask for her blessing every time I race and her name in his mouth feels blasphemous.
  12. feign
    give a false appearance of
    I lower my arm, wipe the grin off my face, and pitch up my eyebrows to feign innocence.
  13. cadence
    the rhythmic rise and fall of the voice
    There is an interesting rhythm to his inflection and cadence.
  14. derive
    come from
    “Astronaut is from Greek and is derived from star and sailor.”
  15. anomaly
    deviation from the normal or common order, form, or rule
    “You want to be a statistical anomaly, then?”
Created on Fri Jun 19 03:17:14 EDT 2026 (updated Mon Jul 06 19:24:09 EDT 2026)

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