Colleen Hoskins

Smart as Hell. Not a Presence.

What happens when the “dependable asset” finally finds her voice.

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Caroline “Cary” Valente’s spreadsheets never lie, but the night she grabs a wedding mic and torches her “steady” career, she has to decide whether to keep fixing the numbers for men in cufflinks—or finally cross the bridge to a life where she counts, too.

Set in the fluorescent glare of corporate life, *Crossing in One Piece* is corporate women’s fiction with bite: an office satire about burnout recovery, midlife career change, imposter syndrome, and what happens when a woman decides that being “too much” is exactly enough.

What Readers are Saying

Here’s what readers have said about Crossing in One Piece.

★★★★★

This is a first book by author Colleen Hoskins and I sure hope it’s not her last. I want to read more about Caroline and Brooke’s friendship, and I want to see how far up the corporate ladder Caroline climbs. Reading Colleen’s writing is like having a friend tell you her secrets.

Linda S. Amstutz

★★★★★

I didn’t just love this book- I felt it. It shook something awake in me. It was eye-opening, yes, but more than that, it was a call to stop shrinking, and start seeing myself clearly.

Margaret T. Anderson

★★★★★

Well written, empowering, and entertaining, this is women’s fiction at its finest. Very highly recommended.

Jamie Michele

Crossing in One Piece

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Meet Colleen Hoskins

Colleen Hoskins is a recovering Sales & Revenue Operations leader who spent 17+ years turning messy pipeline data into neat executive decks while quietly wondering if she’d ever be brave enough to blow up a life that looked great on paper. A Boston College grad who meant to be a kindergarten teacher and accidentally built a tech career instead, she worked her way from admin to Director before taking a planned break to raise her two sons and relocate to Las Vegas.

Crossing in One Piece is her debut novel, inspired by the women who fix everything for everyone else and only later ask what they actually want. She loves early 90s R&B, tarot cards, and any story where a woman stops shrinking to fit other people’s comfort and finally takes up her full, complicated, glorious space.

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  • Hello World!

    I didn’t write Crossing in One Piece just to tell a “corporate” story. I wrote it for every woman who has ever made herself smaller to survive.

    A recent reviewer said the book “shook something awake in me… a call to stop shrinking, and start seeing myself clearly.” That’s exactly the kind of disruption Cary’s story was meant to spark.

    We do this every day—minimize, edit, carve away the parts of ourselves that feel “too much” or “not enough.” But enough is enough.

    If you’ve ever felt invisible at work, in a relationship, or in your own life, Crossing in One Piece is my love letter and wake-up call to you: you were never meant to be small.

    Have you ever realized you’ve been shrinking yourself? Tell me one way you’re choosing to take up more space this year. 💬

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