He rejected her. She rebuilt herself. Then she walked back into his territory with his son.
Three years ago, Lycan King Cael Duskmore spoke the rejection in front of his entire pack council—cold, public, and final. Or so Wren Calloway believed. She packed what was left of herself and started over. New city. New life. A son with dark hair and gold eyes she told herself she could raise on love alone.
She was almost right.
Now Wren is back in Ashveil Ridge—not for him, but for Luca, her two-year-old half-lycan son who has started shifting in his sleep and needs answers only his father’s pack can give. Her plan is simple: get in, get what her son needs, get out. She doesn’t plan for the bond that never actually broke. She doesn’t plan for Cael appearing at her grandmother’s apothecary with grief in his eyes and the words I know where his excuses should be.
Cael knew the rejection was the worst decision of his life approximately twelve hours after he made it. None of his justifications—pack law, human vulnerability, fear dressed up as duty—prepared him for the sight of a small dark-haired boy with his eyes. Or for the woman who raised that boy alone and came back not for redemption, but for her son.
But Wren’s return has put a target on her back.
The pack’s Beta is building a trap. A dormant witch bloodline Wren doesn’t know she carries makes her more dangerous to his schemes than any alliance match. As the threat turns personal, Cael must choose between the crown that demands a pureblooded queen and the mate bond his wolf has never stopped honoring.
And Wren must decide if the man who broke her has become someone worth letting back in.
Rejected by the Lycan King is a steamy paranormal romance featuring a rejected mate second chance, a secret baby, grumpy/sunshine tension, forced proximity, and a small-town shifter world with dangerous secrets. Standalone. Hard-earned HEA.
For fans of Nalini Singh, Jaymin Eve, and C.R. Jane.
Read it now. The mountain is waiting.
