The Alpha's Rival: A Shifter Werewolf Romance (The Howling Ridge Pack) by Ivy Blackmoon

She came to negotiate a peace treaty. She didn't come to find her mate — especially not in the enemy's camp. Iris Vega has spent years being the most useful person in a dangerous room. As Silver Creek's lieutenant, she kept forty wolves alive through the worst years of a corrupt alpha's reign — not by being soft, but by being indispensable. She knows how to read a threat, manage a table, and keep her own wants filed somewhere no one can reach them. She's never met anyone like Finn Calloway. He's across the table from her at every session — patient, perceptive, and watching her with the quiet certainty of a man who has already decided something and is in no hurry to announce it. The mate bond hits her the moment she walks into the pack house, and it hits him just as hard. The difference is that Finn isn't fighting it. Iris is fighting it for both of them. With her pack's survival riding on the treaty, an exiled tyrant watching from the shadows, and a negotiation that could collapse under the weight of old wounds, the last thing Iris can afford is to fall for a Howling Ridge wolf. The first thing she's starting to realize is that afford stopped mattering the moment she sat down across from him. Read more