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Chanel Pacheco

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Born

California, The United States

Website

https://chanelpacheco.com

Genre

Romance, Contemporary, Suspense

Influences

My mom, my ADHD, & the social response of silence.

Member Since

April 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/chanella12

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Chanel is a full-time independent contemporary dark romance author with a spin of drama, psychological, and political fiction. She loves to be a homebody, hanging out with friends and family, drawing, and creating textile designs for her shop on Etsy. She's currently writing The Velvet Legacy Series, just self published Black Orchids Cry Gold and Black Orchids Bleed Velvet. She's currently working on Silk & Shade which will be released in 2026. This is a planned six book series and she already is thinking about her next series she’s going to dive into.

She lives in the Phoenix area and is excited to keep writing. ...more

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Black Orchids Bleed Velvet

Black Orchids Bleed Velvet is now officially available on Kindle Unlimited and Amazon. You can read/purchase here: https://a.co/d/0bKckcbk

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Published on February 14, 2026 14:00 • Tags: dark-contemporary-romance, dark-romance-slow-burn, forbidden-romance-elite-families, gothic-romance-thriller, power-struggle-romance, psychological-romance-drama, romance-suspense, the-velvet-legacy-series

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Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)

by Brynne Weaver (Goodreads Author)

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Caraval (Caraval, #1)

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Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

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When I started writing Black Orchids Bleed Velvet, I did not sit down with the intention of writing a dark romance. I was just writing. I was following Sadira. Following the power structures around her. Following the tension that naturally existed betw ...more
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Fun fact: I did not write Black Orchids Cry Gold first. I actually started with what is now Silk & Shade. That was the story that poured out of me. The darker evolution and transformation and version of Sadira after the world had already shifted. When ...more
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