Stone Cold Fox

Stone Cold Fox is a thriller novel and the first novel by WGA-award-nominated screenwriter and author Rachel Koller Croft. Since publishing Stone Cold Fox in 2024, Koller Croft has also published We Love the Night Life, which is also a thriller novel. Stone Cold Fox centers on the life of Bea, the daughter of a con artist, as she tries to penetrate the wealthiest circles in New York City. As a thriller, the novel revolves around the twists and turns of Bea’s struggle to convince her boyfriend, Collin Case, to marry her, while also dodging the efforts of Collin’s best friend, Gale, to derail Bea’s plans. Bea’s narrative is punctuated by memories of her childhood with her unnamed mother, who seduced and married different men for money, power, and fun, dragging Bea from place to place without a sense of security. As an adult, Bea’s desire to fit into the Case family is driven by a need for new-found security and potentially familial love. Koller Croft defines Bea’s journey with themes of The Struggle of Identity Construction in a Materialistic Society, The Consequences of Deception and Manipulation, and