The Defiance Queen Bee
Steele Zinnia doesn’t walk into rooms. She conquers them.
As the second-richest heiress in the country, Zinnia is beautiful, powerful, and untouchable. She is used to people fearing her, admiring her, and doing whatever it takes to stay on her good side. Wealth has given her influence, and she has never hesitated to use it. Cruel, sharp-tongued, and proud, Zinnia believes only the strong survive.
Then she meets McKenzie Orion.
Orion is everything Zinnia looks down on. He is poor, has no powerful connections, and owns nothing that can compete with her luxurious world. Yet there is one thing he has that money cannot buy: he isn't afraid of her.
He doesn't admire her wealth. He doesn't soften his words around her. He doesn't bow.
At first, Zinnia sees his defiance as arrogance. She decides to teach him his place, using mockery, threats, humiliation, and every advantage her status gives her.
But Orion refuses to break.
The more Zinnia tries to control him, the more determined he becomes to resist her. What begins as a battle of pride soon becomes an obsession. Orion becomes the one person Zinnia cannot bend, the one person who makes her question the control she has always taken for granted.
But Orion has his own rule: he will never be owned by anyone, not by money, status, or Steele Zinnia.
As their rivalry intensifies, something unexpected begins to grow between them. Their arguments become charged, their stolen glances harder to ignore, and the hatred they once felt starts becoming dangerously close to attraction.
But secrets are waiting to surface, and the more they discover about each other, the more complicated their war becomes.
Zinnia has spent her entire life controlling everything around her. Orion is the first thing she cannot control.
And Orion, who promised never to bow to her, may soon discover that resisting Zinnia is becoming harder for reasons that have nothing to do with her wealth.
When power collides with pride, who will break first?
