Crack Ships Novels & Stories

The day my husband's first love shows up at my house, I catch a faint, cloyingly sweet scent of gardenias in the air. My genetically-linked asthma flares violently at the scent of gardenias. As expected, halfway through the meal, my chest suddenly tightens. I can barely draw a breath before collapsing onto the couch. My younger brother sprints into my bedroom like he's lost his mind, grabs an inhaler, and shoves it straight to my mouth. "Tess!" he roars. "Why the hell is there gardenia perfume?" Everyone panics. My dad grabs a liquor bottle. My mom lunges forward, grabbing the woman by the hair. And my husband positions himself in front of her, protecting his beloved first love as she

When broke waitress Sarah Thompson agrees to impersonate her wealthy best friend Claire on a blind date for a quick thousand dollars, she expects a simple evening of rejection and escape. What she gets instead is Adrian Cole, a ruthless, devastatingly handsome billionaire who sees right through her lie. Instead of exposing her, Adrian slides a marriage contract across the table. A temporary arrangement. Public wife by day. No emotions. No physical contact. One million dollar penalty for breaking the rules. And the ultimate condition: she must move into his luxurious penthouse. Trapped between crippling debt and her dream of opening her own restaurant, Sarah has no choice but to pla

For three years, she was nobody. No name worth remembering. No money worth counting. She was just Jason Sterling’s quiet, invisible wife—the woman his world walked past without a second glance. That was exactly how Jasmine Vance wanted it. On their third anniversary, she found him where he shouldn’t have been—with the woman he’d sworn was “just family.” She didn’t scream. She didn’t cry. She just smiled, pulled out her phone, and let the world watch. By morning, Jason Sterling’s empire had a crack in it. By the end of the week, it was rubble. Only then did people start asking the real question. Who exactly is Jasmine Vance? Because powerful men don’t fall that fast. Not

Kaya built the perfect quarterback to break her ex. She never expected him to steal her heart… again. After sacrificing everything to help her arrogant ex-husband Tom rise as captain of the nation’s biggest football team, Kaya is left humiliated and betrayed by her husband But Kaya isn’t just anyone. She is the hidden heiress of the very team Tom plays for and a Tech genius undermined by everyone, only known for her precise physics and game play. Determined to destroy him where it hurts most, Kaya uses her family’s cutting-edge tech to build Tom 2.0 a flawlessly handsome AI quarterback robot programmed to dominate the field… and drive Tom mad with jealousy. But when Tom 2.0 s

When I'm on my break, I decide to help my neighbor, Yvonne Cook, fix the gas valve, which has been leaking gas. But she instantly lodges a report, saying that I've gone against the rules. She demands compensation for the shock that she's suffered as well. I don't bother defending myself. Instead, I just write a reflection report. After that, my squad leader sentences me to disciplinary confinement. Yvonne wastes no time gloating in the tenants' group chat. "It's time to teach these power-abusers a good lesson, anyway!" Three days later, a fire breaks out in Yvonne's apartment. Thick plumes of dark smoke keep rising from the burning apartment. Yvonne wails as she bangs on my door and pl

BLURB All Aria Scott wanted was relief from a stupid allergy rash. What she got instead… was Dr. Nolan Edison. Cold. Brilliant. Irritatingly handsome—and completely immune to her charm. Most men fall for Aria’s sunshine energy in seconds. Nolan? He shuts her down with a single word: no. But Aria has never backed down from a challenge. Between fake appointments, accidental run-ins, and very intentional flirting, she’s determined to crack the grumpy doctor’s perfectly controlled world. And the more she pushes, the more cracks begin to show. Because behind Nolan’s icy exterior is a man with a past he refuses to face… and feelings he definitely shouldn’t be having for his most chaotic pa

When billionaire Liam Vance is found barely alive after a mysterious yacht explosion, the headlines explode with an even bigger shock: He has a secret wife. Her name is Ava Quinn, a quiet waitress from a nowhere town who claims they married in private months before. There’s just one problem, she is lying. Ava has every reason to hate the man unconscious in that hospital bed. Before the accident, Liam Vance destroyed her family’s livelihood without a second glance. He ruined everything. Now, he’s vulnerable. And she’s the only one close enough to find the truth and make him pay. She told herself it was just a plan. Get revenge. Uncover the truth. Break his empire from the inside. But as

He murdered her father. Now he must marry her to keep her alive. Isabella Moretti lived as an ordinary artist in a quiet coastal town until the night masked men dragged her from her bed and delivered her to the most feared man in the underworld: Damien Voss "The Reaper", the rival don widely suspected of ordering her father’s assassination. Cold, calculating, and brutally possessive, Damien sees her only as leverage: a hidden pawn to control her father’s crumbling empire and crush any challengers but Isabella refuses to be caged. Beneath her innocent facade lies a sharp mind and a growing hunger for power. As deadly secrets surface: her father’s monstrous betrayals, enemies within both fa

Sports journalist Laura Jean “LJ” Renard never met a story she couldn’t crack until Jannis “The Ice King” Laurence. The undefeated Formula 1 champion despises the media, and when LJ gets forced into six months of exclusive access, the hate is instant. He calls her Vixen every time she digs too deep. She calls him Ice King just to watch that famous cold mask crack. Their public fights are pure tabloid fire. But on private jets and in shared hotel suites, the hostility starts turning into something hotter... and way more dangerous. LJ has a steady boyfriend back home and a career she’ll bled for. Jannis has a dark past he’ll burn everything down to protect — especially his hidden younger

Aria Sinclair has always known her father's world has a dark side. She just never expected to become part of it. When Richard Sinclair's debt to the most feared family in the city comes due, there is only one currency left that will satisfy it. His daughter. Promised to Dante Vitale — charming, ruthless, and utterly untouchable — in an arrangement that leaves Aria no choice and no way out. Dante doesn't want a wife. He wants what the marriage represents. Power. Leverage. Control. But Aria Sinclair refuses to be controlled. And the one thing Dante Vitale has never known how to handle is something he cannot have. As their worlds collide behind closed doors, what begins as a cold arrangem