Cold Case The Crossing Novels & Stories

Cold Hearts & Contracts "I signed the paper to save my father. I didn't know I was signing away my soul." Benita Hayes is a master at noticing small details, but she missed the biggest one: her own family was willing to sell her. To stop a scandal that would ruin them, she’s forced into a three-year marriage contract with Adrian Knight—a man whose shadow is as intimidating as his reputation. Adrian is brilliant, cold, and calculated. He doesn't want a partner; he wants a tactical advantage. But as they navigate a world of venomous family secrets and high-stakes betrayal, the distance between them begins to collapse. When their empires turn against them and leave them with nothing, the "awkward" girl and the "heartless" heir must do the unthinkable: trust each other. In a game where every kiss is a contract and every look is a lie, can two cold hearts find a way to burn it all down together?

Be a Billionaire and good looks is not a guarantee that Nicholas Alistair's love story will run. Feeling very disappointed because his previous fiancé had betrayed him, Nicholas closed his mind and acted cool. He thinks women are creatures to be avoided. However, this caught the attention of an assistant named Kimberly. She, who had just taken up the position of Nicholas's private assistant, had a secret love. The cool and indifferent attitude shown by Nicholas made the young woman very challenged to crush the mind of her boss. Can Kimberly, a young woman full of secrets, crush Nicholas's mind as cool as ice in Antarctica?

He looks at me like he already knows the truth I’ve spent a lifetime hiding. Ethan Vance—lawman, predator, believer in a system I learned to outthink before I could drink wine. His eyes don’t burn with hate. They study, measure, almost… understand. They call him incorruptible. Maybe he is. But I’ve seen incorruptible men fall, not to money or power, but to fascination. The kind that crawls under your skin and makes you wonder if the person chasing you might be the only one who truly sees you. He hunts me by the book. I survive by rewriting it. But somewhere between the pursuit and the silence, between his questions and my lies, the line blurred. And now, I can’t decide which is more dangerous, losing to him, or wanting him to catch me. --- He isn’t what I expected. Luca Vitale walks into every room like he owns it, and maybe he does. Calm. Calculated. Dangerous in ways that don’t show up on a rap sheet. He should be just another target, another name I take down and file away. But there’s something about the way he looks at me. Like he already knows I’m not as untouchable as I pretend to be. I tell myself it’s strategy, curiosity, control. It’s not. It’s a problem. Because every time I think I’m closing in, I realise he’s already two steps ahead—and for the first time in my career, I’m not sure if I’m hunting him, or if he’s letting me try.

Every day, my son and husband finish all the house chores before I even get home. But only because they're bringing my husband's first love, Sally Sullivan, back for Thanksgiving, I pour boiling water on my son's face. I also kick both my son and husband out when it's 104°F outside. Desperate to save our son, my husband sprawls across the front porch, begging me to open the door. "Wanda, open the door! We need to save our son! I only invited Sally over because she saved you once back then. I didn't mean anything else by it!" "Mom, it hurts!" my son cries. "Mom, can't you kiss me? Mom…" Meanwhile, I'm slouching on the couch, snacking away as I watch TV. In the end, my husband can't take it anymore and brings me to the Bad Mom Court for trial. The moment my memories are extracted, the entire court bursts into tears.

The novel is about a ceo whose father forced him to get married in other to continue the legacy of the company. so he had no option than to go for a contract marriage which he gradually fell inlove

The story revolves around a very beautiful girl who marries a biggest gangster of the city to save herself. The mafia leader is a cruel and cold-Hearted man. She tried her best to win his heart , but he did not change. After that she left everything and moved to another city to start a new life but also followed her.

On the third day of my son, Zeke Murphy's disappearance, I've hacked into the smart AI system belonging to the entire apartment block. All 202 families in this block are locked up in their respective homes thanks to my ministrations. After that, I leave my first text message in the residents' group chat. "My son, Zeke Murphy, is in this very building. From now on, I will expose a family's secret every hour. If I can't find Zeke, all of you will go to hell with me." A CEO of a company with tens of millions of dollars' worth of assets is quick to lash out at me angrily in the group chat. "Have you gone nuts? Your son's disappearance has nothing to do with us! I order you to stop what you're doing immediately!" I type out my second text and attach a screenshot of an encrypted financial statement. "@1502Mr.Cooper, you have 59 minutes left. Here's a friendly reminder to check your overseas bank account. I'd like to see if the tax department is interested in its contents." I know that Zeke is currently staring at a resident on this very block right now.

He marry her on the gun point .They both hate each other .Sarah Jawed and Arham Khan two people who belong to different world ,who are poles apart. He is cold hearted ,ruthless and conservative man while she is headstrong ,helpful and bold girl .What happened when he married her forcefully to take his revenge.Will Sarah able to adjust herself in conservative family .Will love blossom between them

She married him to save her sister’s life. He married her to save his crown. For two years, Alicia kept her vows and her silence--until the night Edward Valentine asked for an open marriage and stepped back into the orbit of the woman he once called his first love. When her sister collapses and Alicia faces the worst alone, she finally sees the truth: beneath his cold vows, there was never a heart for her at all. But distance cuts deeper than anger. And when the life he built without love starts to crack, Edward learns the cost of the wife he treated like a stranger. Now the man who never begged may have to. If she’s still there to listen.

On New Year’s Eve, Kian Newman never came home. Instead, he had someone deliver a container of frozen ravioli and sent me a single message: "Stay safe this year." I had barely locked the screen when a photo popped up in the company group chat. Isabel Wilkinson, Kian's assistant, had posted it. It was a lavish holiday dinner spread across the table, every dish clearly homemade. The caption read: "Someone spent all day cooking so I could have a taste of home. Love you." For the first time, I didn’t call or argue. I simply packed my things and went back to my hometown. The first day I vanished, a friend sent me a video. In it, Kian had his arm around Isabel, smiling casually as he said, "Lane's just upset. She’ll come back on her own." A month later, Kian was searching for me like he’d lost his mind. "I learned how to make ravioli, I’ll make it for you for the rest of our lives. Just come home and try it, okay?" He was still oblivious that I had always hated ravioli.