Fractured Control

By Olivia J. Cross

Isabella Rossi is a brilliant corporate lawyer with a flawless marriage, a pristine home, and a life engineered to perfection. Beneath the polish, however, lies a restless hunger she can't silence. Haunted by a chaotic childhood, Isabella has spent her adult life mastering control-over her career, her marriage, even her own desire. When boredom cracks her carefully curated world, she proposes an unconventional solution: an open arrangement that allows her to explore passion on her own terms, while her husband, Mark, stands firmly by her side.

What begins as a calculated experiment quickly unravels. Liam O'Connell-an ex-rugby player with disarming confidence-was meant to be nothing more than a variable in Isabella's equation. Instead, he challenges everything she believes about power, intimacy, and control. As emotions ignite and boundaries blur, Isabella discovers that human connection cannot be managed like a balance sheet.

Watching from the sidelines, Mark undergoes a transformation of his own, finding strength in vulnerability and becoming the emotional anchor holding everything together.

A provocative, emotionally charged novel about marriage, desire, and the courage to surrender control, Fractured Control explores what happens when carefully built lives collide with inconvenient truths-and the freedom that waits on the other side of letting go.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMDJF4V1
• ISBN13: 9798247402930
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"