Claiming The Orc Prince (Ironpeak Orcs #7)

She came to write a story. He became the story she couldn’t walk away from.

Two years ago, Harper Stone was one of the Washington Post’s rising stars. Then a source burned her, a retraction buried her, and the investigative journalist who once chased Fortune 500 corruption found herself exiled to the supernatural beat — writing feel-good features nobody reads.

Now she’s been sent to Ironpeak, the orc settlement in the Cascades, to cover the twenty-fifth anniversary of the human-orc treaty. File by the fifteenth. Human interest angle. Easy.

Except nothing about Drake is easy.

The half-orc prince is Georgetown-educated, diplomatically lethal, and hiding enough secrets to sink the fragile peace between his people and the human government.

He doesn’t need a journalist poking around Ironpeak.

Especially not one as sharp, relentless, and dangerously perceptive as Harper Stone.

But the mate bond doesn’t care about political strategy. And the truth Harper is chasing — about Ironpeak, about the threats closing in, about what she and Drake are becoming to each other — could either save his people or destroy everything he’s spent his life protecting.

She’s never killed a story. He’s never let anyone past his walls. Something has to give.