Stacey Steele

Midnight Orchid
Ioannis Holland never expected her life to change during a routine sketching session in the moonlit forest. As the Alpha's daughter of the Eternal Eclipse Pack, she's always preferred her art to pack politics, until a political marriage arrangement threatens everything she holds dear.
When Nickolas Harvey, heir to the Storm Striders Pack, arrives for their arranged courtship, Ioannis braces for another arrogant Alpha who sees her only as a political asset. Instead, she discovers a man who values her artistic passion and challenges her assumptions about duty versus desire.
However, their growing connection attracts the attention of dangerous individuals. Violeta Carberry's jealous schemes pale beside the greater threat emerging from the shadows, Forest Mountain Pack's brutal campaign to reshape the werewolf world through conquest and elimination of traditional bloodlines.
As assassination attempts escalate and pack alliances crumble, Ioannis must embrace powers she never knew she possessed. The ancient magic flowing through her bloodline and the strength of her bond with Nickolas become their only weapons against enemies who seek to destroy everything their people have built.
When Forest Mountain's forces mass at their borders, threatening the very ceremony that should mark her coming of age, Ioannis faces an impossible choice: flee to safety or stand and fight for a future where love and duty can coexist.
In a world where midnight orchids bloom only under the harshest conditions, sometimes the most beautiful connections require the greatest courage to defend.
Can Ioannis and Nickolas forge an alliance strong enough to protect both their packs, or will Forest Mountain's vision of a new order destroy the bonds that make their world worth saving?

Nineteen-year-old Iris Maxwell has always known exactly who she is: a scholarship student fighting her way through design school, devoted daughter to the adoptive parents who found her abandoned at a fire station, and fierce protector of her four younger brothers. With nothing but raw talent and relentless determination, she's determined to build a fashion empire from scratch, no connections, no trust fund, just hard work.
When Iris wins the prestigious Metropolitan Design Challenge, she catches the attention of Tony, a mysterious business student who offers to help with her startup plans. Their coffee shop meetings crackle with unspoken tension and possibility, but Tony harbours secrets of his own. As the heir to the Kennedy fortune, he's trapped between family expectations and his growing feelings for the brilliant designer who refuses to rely on anyone but herself.
Everything changes when Iris enters the Lawson competition, a design contest worth fifty thousand dollars, hosted in memory of Roxanne Lawson, an heiress who vanished twenty years ago. The missing girl shares Iris's birthday, and Tony's strange reaction to this detail hints at connections neither of them fully understands.
As Iris races to complete her collection, she must navigate the cutthroat world of high fashion, the complexities of falling for someone from a different world, and the unsettling possibility that the iris pin she was found with might be the key to a past she never knew existed. Some coincidences are too perfect to be accidents, and some secrets are too dangerous to stay buried.
A contemporary romance about ambition, identity, and the courage to claim your destiny, no matter who you were born to be.

For seventeen years, I believed I was nothing, Iris Delta, the unwanted orphan tolerated by a pack that saw me as a burden. The Maxwell quad Alpha heirs made sure I knew my place, tormenting me with cruel words and vicious pranks. I was weak, worthless, invisible.
I was wrong about everything.
On my eighteenth birthday, Alpha Maxwell reveals the truth that changes everything: I'm Seraphina Blackthorne, the last heir of a bloodline thought extinct. My parents didn't abandon me; they were murdered by the Northern Alliance, who believed they'd eliminated every trace of Blackthorne power.
They were wrong, too.
The moment my wolf Diamond awakens, the mate bond snaps into place with the four men who made my life hell. Fin, Brent, Kane, and Liam, my tormentors, are my fated mates, four pieces of one soul that can only be completed by me. Their cruelty wasn't hatred; it was a fractured soul recognising its missing piece and lashing out in fear.
But the Northern Alliance isn't finished. They've come to eliminate the last Blackthorne before I can claim my birthright. What they don't realise is that I'm not just the last heir, I'm the strongest Blackthorne born in three centuries.
When divine justice flows through my veins and ghostly wolf spirits answer my call, they'll learn what happens when you try to destroy something the goddess herself has chosen to protect.
The Blackthorne line has returned. And this time, we're not going down without a fight.