Crash & Burn Book Novels & Stories

She simply gave them the truth and let it stand in the snow, and the men received it in silence, the flat broken silence of a people too cold and too hungry to do anything with a truth but hear it. Then she went back up to the study, because there was nowhere else to go, and she took out the book to burn it. That was her honest intention. The swollen ledger of buried bodies had cost her everything. It had turned Dain into a fuse, started a mutiny, and taught her that every secret in it was a door that opened onto a trap. She knelt at the small cold hearth with the last of the fire she would allow herself, and she opened the book one final time, meaning to feed it page by page to the flame, a

"But what really happened here? Why is a book burnt?. I wrote quickly, my hand still trembling. I don't know. I touched one book and it started to burn. I dropped it. It was a weak lie, but it was all I had in that moment of panic. Suddenly, Noah's eyes caught something. He grabbed my hand roughly, turning it over. "You're burned." He was right. My hand was red and blistered from where I had held the burning book. I had been so terrified by what I'd read and by the fire that I hadn't even felt the pain.

“Really, Vivian?” I nodded, “But first, you have to take Sharon away.” “Right away.” Just as he had come, Sharon was dragged into the back seat like a rag. I thought John was joking. But to my surprise, he actually found 99 cars to crash into himself. When his assistant pulled him out from under the race car, he was unrecognizable. His entire body was disfigured, his face ruined, and he was completely disabled. John still tried to contact me but was locked away by his family.

I felt like I had fallen into a pond. With trembling fingers, I called Philip. “Mr. York, did my parents die due to an accident?” Philip told me that the CCTVs on the road showed that the brakes of my parents’ car had broken down, so they crashed into the barrier before they plunged into the sea. Their bodies were not found. Hence, they could not find out whether it was due to an accident or someone had sabotaged their car. I felt a chill crawl down my spine before spreading to the rest of my body. I trembled.

Jayce whispered, “And we burned.” BOOK ONE COMES TO AN END

The dry grass crackled in the evening breeze. Pale green streaks at the base of the stems were all that showed it was alive, struggling against the heat of the summer sun and a rainless afternoon. Thunder rumbled in the distance, but the clouds refused to release their water. A large sign with a bear in a hat declaring the fire danger “extreme” glared out over the road. A car sped by, the taillights fading into the setting sun. A red glowing cigarette ember flicked out of the open window, landing on the dark asphalt. It rolled gently, swirling in odd circles until finally resting on the edge of the road. The parched breeze puffed, pushing the small glowing light into the grass. It only took

It was too little, too late, and too worthless. Finally, after I once again took the flowers, threw them down, and stomped on them, he dropped the act. "Vivian! Just because I'm playing nice, it doesn't mean you can push your luck! Didn't you leave the car with me to avoid cutting off all ties with me, so that I'd come and see you? Why are you pretending to be above it all now? You disgust me!"

Please save my friends' lives! I pointed at the bottom of his van. "There's no need to bother with the refund." Under the intense friction and constant high temperature from earlier, the loose oil pipe under the car had completely snapped. The dripping oil came into contact with the scalding exhaust pipe, and soon, the whole thing erupted in flames. "Keep the 20,000 dollars and use it to buy yourself a nicer, waterproof casket." Then, I turned and walked away without any hesitation. I walked until I was about a hundred feet away, in a safer zone. A loud, deafening explosion erupted from behind me as a huge, orange fireball shot into the sky.

I scream into the air. "Jessa!" Brixtius's voice is next to me. "Who are you talking to?" "You wouldn't believe me if I told you," I tell him. "Let's go!" Brixtius shouts while pulling me down the street. In the same direction as the crowd. We run for a few minutes, the ash making it hard to breathe. Such deadly snow! The next rumble, I realize it is the end. The pyroclastic cloud that kills all the citizens of Pompeii is coming.

“Biggest one yet. Their CEO happens to be in town. I’ll go meet his assistant and sign everything today. You don’t even have to show up.” I smiled for the first time in weeks. “Be careful,” I told her. “And don’t mention me.” She promised. That afternoon, she walked into the hotel where the meeting was set. But when the man across the table looked up, he froze. His name was Ryan — Luca’s personal assistant. The moment Ryan saw Clara, he froze. He knew that face — if his memory served him right, she was Valeria’s closest friend. According to the investigation, the private jet that “crashed” three months ago hadn’t gone down because of bad weather or engine failure.