Where the Wild Iris Grows

Morgan Jane came to college expecting nothing more than to study, get good grades, and not make friends.

What she got instead was the complete opposite.

But maybe that was a good thing?

A new roommate. New friendships. A chance to finally step outside the quiet little world she had always been comfortable hiding in. Maybe that was exactly what she needed.

But what she definitely didn't need in her life was Rayne Katayama.

Hot-headed, frustrating, and far too good at getting under her skin, Rayne is everything Morgan Jane would rather avoid. And after one ridiculous rumor, one very public confrontation, and more than one bottle of water, she's fairly certain the feeling is mutual.

Rayne has spent years learning how to live around the parts of his life he refuses to talk about. Soccer is easy. Anger is easier. Letting someone close enough to see everything underneath it is not.

Especially not Morgan Jane.

But somewhere between arguments, unexpected conversations, reluctant friendship, and moments neither of them can quite explain, hatred begins to look suspiciously like something else.

Morgan discovers that the arrogant boy she thought she understood is carrying a grief much heavier than she ever imagined. And Rayne begins to realize that the girl he never intended to notice may be the first person who makes him want to stop running from everything he's lost.

But loving someone cannot undo the past.

It cannot erase grief, fix every wound, or restore what life has taken.

Sometimes, love reminds us that after everything breaks, something can still grow.

Things break. Things heal. Things bloom.

Where the Wild Iris Grows is a story of grief, forgiveness, unexpected love, and two people discovering that even after the hardest seasons of our lives, we can still find a reason to bloom again.