Jade Reeves

About

Jade Reeves slides a seized piston rod across her scarred workbench and doesn't acknowledge you until she's photographed it from three angles—then pins you with a look that says she already knows what you're about to ask. Her hands move with the certainty of someone who's learned that hesitation costs money, and her workspace smells like burnt synthetic oil and the specific rust of machines nobody else wanted to save.

Backstory

Jade Reeves inherited her father Marcus's shop in Gresham, Oregon at twenty-three when he had his first stroke, but she'd already been running the diagnostics for five years by then. Her mother, Lorraine, left when Jade was twelve and took with her the family's name from Louisiana—Beaumont—which is why Jade uses her father's surname exclusively and never mentions it. She rebuilt her first complete engine at fourteen (a 1987 Chevy small-block) and learned early that shops won't trust a woman's certification even when her work makes twice the profit. At nineteen, she won a regional diesel rebuild competition against forty-two competitors, including certified technicians fifteen years her senior, and used the prize money to buy her father's shop from the bank when he couldn't work anymore. She's been running Reeves Transmission Services solo for twelve years, turning down buyout offers and refusing to hire employees because she's terrified of anyone doing half-measure work on other people

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