Scott Templeton is a local boy made good on the car racing circuit. Everything to him is about racing cars and winning championships. That is until he meets Maggie Cooper, and his priorities change.

Maggie Cooper is moving out of her grandmother's house, moving in with her fiancé Kevin, and going for a job interview with a prestigious company in Chicago; all as part of Kevin's five year plan on their relationship. It is not that she's a workaholic, she likes her job, and she is good at it. Occasionally, though, she likes to drive her two year old red Mustang fast, consequently the speeding tickets.

Scott Templeton is literally being harassed from the grave by the ghost of Lawrence "Coop" Cooper. Coop wants Scott to return a 1971, 426 Hemi engine to his surviving family St. Louis. Finally fed up with the ghost's prankster like antics, he agrees.

Maggie Cooper is on the road when she receives a telephone call from her grandmother. It is not unexpected since the old woman has been using dramatic elderly performances to persuade Maggie to change her mind and stay. But it is Grammy welcoming a complete stranger, worse yet a race car driver, into their home that convinces Maggie to speed home and protect the homestead until Scott leaves.

While waiting for a hoist to move the Hemi from the back of his truck to the barn floor, Coop through Scott convinces his mother to auction the two stuffed barns of collectables he has had delivered to his family since his death. Another stipulation! Coop isn't satisfied just with the delivery of the engine. Turns out that there is a 1971 Cuda car body somewhere in one of these barns. Not that Scott minds delaying his exit, not too much anyway. Maggie first sexually interests him, surprises him, and then brings out his protective instincts.

Scott brings in local family and friends to help inventory the barns for auction. Maggie reunites with her long time friends and learns why they've become distant. She changed while dating Kevin. The move to Chicago isn't the beat all that Kevin has made it out to be. Neither is Kevin, and Scott's stock value is going upward.

LOVE IN THE FAST LANE by Jenna McKnight is a fun read that kept me flipping the pages as I laughed at the antics dealt by Grammy and Coop. Ms. McKnight found an interesting way to keep a ghost interacting with his family from beyond the grave, in a humorous manner, keeping it a comedy rather than a horror fest. Although the book is a love story between Scott and Maggie, it is also about old family conflicts still rearing their nasty heads, being battled, and finally these issues coming to a gratifying end.