Jump to ratings and reviews
Rate this book

Mated by the Pack: A Dark Wolf Shifter Romance

Rate this book
They're not just claiming me. They're breeding me.

Before they took turns with my virgin body, these fearsome alpha shifters didn't just spank me into shameful surrender. They made me admit what my helpless arousal already made obvious first.

I'm their mate.

And whether they're mounting and rutting me one at a time or filling me in every way all at once, I'll fall asleep between them each night with their seed still dripping down my thighs.

Because I don't belong to just one of them.

I belong to the whole pack.

Publisher's  Mated by the Pack is a standalone romance. It includes spankings and rough, intense sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don't buy this book.

414 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 29, 2025

452 people are currently reading
85 people want to read

About the author

Kelli Callahan

100 books793 followers
elli writes hot and steamy romances with delicious alpha males who will not stop until they get the women they crave exactly where they want them. Kelli's heroes are tough as nails, hot as sin, and underneath the rough exterior is a heart of gold begging to be unleashed. If you think you can tame them, you're probably right, but it won't be an easy journey.

Make no mistake, Kelli's stories will give you the happily ever after you need, but they're also steamy and packed from cover to cover with exactly what you're looking for late at night when you leave your panties by the door.

If you would like to contact Kelli, she can be reached at kellicallahanbooks@gmail.com.

Ratings & Reviews

What do you think?
Rate this book

Friends & Following

Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!

Community Reviews

5 stars
244 (50%)
4 stars
117 (24%)
3 stars
87 (17%)
2 stars
25 (5%)
1 star
12 (2%)
Displaying 1 - 30 of 37 reviews
26 reviews
June 7, 2025
DNF…. These reviews must be from friends of the author or something. There isn’t enough detail as to why things are the way they are. Plus, he drugs and sales her to a slave ring because he ones to be the one picked as a NURSE? What?!
Profile Image for Maria11.
2,003 reviews45 followers
June 5, 2025
This got to be a tad over the top. There is lots of punishments. Many are for no reason and they get out of hand to me bordering on the ick factor. That took away from the story. The plot started out kinda strange and at times unrealistic. I know it’s fiction for a reason. Not a bad read but not great

Received copy from BookSprout
44 reviews2 followers
June 27, 2025
Hated

This book was a hard swallow. As a BDSM community member, it's upsetting at the lack of after care in this book. The storyline is non existent. The whole thing had general phrasing. It references a War we know nothing about, other civilizations we learn nothing about, and soooo much confusing science talk. And buried within this is a beyond aggressive BDSM subject. The brutality in which this is told is unbelievable. There is no respect or care in the scenes. And absolutely NO AFTER CARE.
559 reviews16 followers
June 2, 2025
whoooo boy! so this was spicyyyy! We've got calla, a nurse in a post apocalyptic world with slavers, hybrids, monsters, a moving forest and wolf shifters. She's kidnapped with a few other girls and sold off by her asshole classmate to be a slave. She's claimed by her pack in exchange for helping the other girls get home.

While I loved the smut and the book was interesting, I felt that some of the brothers kind of melded together - they're all rough with her, super alpha and domineering. We've got Gideon, Jace, Caleb, Vance and Knox (+ another guy we learn about later - no spoilers), shifter brothers banking on impregnating Calla and saving their bloodline. They're all super disciplinarian with her and I liked Vance best and he's the only one to treat her with respect and care and goes slow / treats her as more or a person tbh.

I'm honestly only detracting a star for the guys kind of not having distinct personalities (it got confusing after a while as their tones are basically the same) and because at some parts I felt like Calla was a bit of a Mary Sue.... she's a talented nurse, gorgeous, fit, has a magical vine bracelet, gets prophesies, leads all the girls, sacrifices herself to 5 guys to save girls she barely knows and is basically superhuman and never upset about what's happening to her etc.
Profile Image for Tanya.
378 reviews4 followers
August 1, 2025
4🌶

A different take on a shifter romance, set in a distopia world.  Really enjoyed... except the end! I wanted a future epilogue, especially after the final line!!! 😫 
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Profile Image for Alonna Irizarry.
710 reviews7 followers
June 25, 2025
Dystopian/ shifter/ why choose/ virgin FMC/ knotting/ fated mates/ breeding/ MFM/ MFMM/ MMFMM/ MMFMMM/ MMMFMMM/ HEA

Trigger warning: human trafficking/ SA/ violence/ attempted r*pe/ murder/ death/ spanking/ death of a loved one/ drug use/ abduction/ human experimentation/ attempted incest

Maybe I’m just not in the right headspace to fully enjoy a dystopian shifter why choose romance. It was fine and there was definitely a lot of spice but the storyline wasn’t my favorite.
Profile Image for Denae Seymour.
13 reviews1 follower
August 2, 2025
Very slow read. Lots of BDSM but came across as abuse in my opinion
Profile Image for Shelley G.
879 reviews9 followers
June 5, 2025
While this was a terrific book in many ways and extremely well written, richly detailed with a well thought out plot there were a few things that i didn't like. I'm sorry this is a long review but this book really got to me in some ways.
Calla is a nurse about to graduate when she is betrayed by a fellow student in their post apocalyptic world and sold to slavers with several other females. With some help from a forest that is alive they escape at the town they are to be sold in and end up back in "the tangle", the forest where a pack of 5 wolf brothers determine one by one that she is their mate after smelling her scent. While trying to survive the slavers she has had some dream like communion with an in between place where lost souls go and has been told she will heal with world by mating the wolf pack. She makes a deal with them that she will stay with them as their mate, if they help return the females to their village. She is a virgin and is given no choice in being their mate and they tell her they will use her, breed her and rut with her regardless of her wishes in order to have children. The problem I had was Gideon, Jace, Knox and Caleb the first 4 brothers to get her scent one by one are all too similar in personality and behaviour. All are rough with her esp as a virgin and use extreme discipline too often and in a more cruel manner than I believe would be pleasurable esp for a virgin. They don't show any regard for consent, they do not care about her feelings, autonomy, wants, or even health just disciplining her every night and using her roughly for their own pleasure not letting her get proper rest, heal from her lost virginity or even from the rough sex. They continue to take what they want over and over with no care for her beyond her safety, yet they believe she is supposed to save their pack. If u think someone is going to save your lives and give you a future would u not want to take care of that person and treat them with some kind of consideration? They also discipline her roughly when she keep secrets from them but they are strangers and from their behaviour she has no reason to trust any of them with secrets or info she doesn't even understand herself. so again she is treated like an object not a person who they call mate. How can u expect someone to trust u that treats u like nothing but a vessel to use at their whim? They don't try to get to know her or talk to her about anything important all they do is keep demanding sex, punishing her for no reason and emphasizing that she is nothing but a breeder to them. They do nothing to treat her like someone cherished who will heal them and give them a future which is stupid. And Calla is a feisty, strong, smart, intelligent woman with some kind of special connection to the living forest yet with the men becomes a total doormat allowing them to do whatever they want with no fight, no push back and just loves everything they do to her, the hurt, the cruelty, the forced prolonged sex daily? that is so unrealistic and unbelievable. There is too much discrepancy between being tough and strong and a doormat for this to make any sense. no woman that has fought to survive and save others would just allow herself to basically be abused and used like a rag doll by men who pretty much couldn't care less about her yet by the end are supposed to love her. Then you have Vance the last of the 5, someone who finally treats her like he cares about her, gently, lovingly, with tenderness and that treatment bonds them in how the sex with him becomes different then with the rest. There is a whole lot of danger, conflict, and more when they return the females to the village and get a huge surprise and captured. They all have to fight to live but once again it is Calla who is the catalyst to save everyone including a surprise soul. Yet she is still treated the same other than Vance yet at the end all are supposed to love her and her them. it would never happen. It is still about basically force yet she really wants it and them using her however they like. I saw nothing in this book from start to finish where their treatment of her changed or evolved to show their changing feelings and their supposed love for her by the end. If u truly believe this one woman is the mate for every brother and has healed u all and is going to save the world by having your children, then there has to be evolution in feelings and behaviour. adaptations to how u approach things and the speech used. In showing your mate that you put her desires, wants and needs before your own in order for her to be happy being your mate and making her want to stay with u and have your children. no one forced and all choice taken away is going to stay without trying to escape, or happily bear baby after baby after baby in rapid succession without breaking her spirit or becoming so bitter and hard inside that she makes a terrible mother and mate and everyone is miserable. There was too much focus on the dark spicy content with no change as the plot developed for me. As a strong personality myself, there is no way I would accept this kind of treatment and just can't believe anyone would who was supposed to be strong enough to heal the world. And there should have been bigger personality differences between the brothers with perhaps 2 of the 5 being more disciplinarian style but all should have shown some kind of tenderness and care for her by the end if they truly loved her, some drastic change between when first met and the end of the story but there wasn't. It was still the same thing, them using her as they wished with her magically loving everything. If the discipline had been less forceful and the story line had shown changes in how she was treated as time went by with care and consideration for her body and her feelings this would have been a 5 star story because all the other details plot and writing was A1 fantastic. It was a gripping and compelling story. But the terrible treatment of her all thru the story really ruined it for me. I wanted to gut all but Vance by the end and rescue her from them myself. Not to mention no virgin would even be able to physically stand up to the amt of rough sex daily from multiple partners, and lack of rest esp while trying to stay alive. Details in a story still have to be believable for the story to make sense.
Profile Image for Chloe Mattson.
496 reviews2 followers
July 15, 2025
I can’t even explain why I bothered finishing this book… like it’s giving AI generated the way nothing in this story made any sense and it just wasn’t good. The sex scenes lasted WAYYY too long, like consistently they were too long. The idea is interesting for sure but it was just executed so poorly it’s insane.
Profile Image for Lauren .
876 reviews
June 6, 2025
This book is full-on reverse harem shifter fantasy, and it does not hold back. If you are into fated mates, primal urges, and a heroine claimed by multiple dominant wolves, then you’re going to have a great time here.

The story throws the heroine into a wild, unfamiliar world where the rules are based on instinct, heat, and an intense need to claim. The men are everything you’d expect from alpha shifters—possessive, growly, completely obsessed with her—and there is more than one. Each has a distinct personality and approach, but all of them revolve around protecting, touching, and claiming her in ways that are pure fantasy.

The pacing moves quickly, but that works for the genre. There’s a real sense of urgency, especially with the mating heat setting everything on fire. The emotional beats are a little lighter, but that’s not the point. This is about physical chemistry, high-stakes bonding, and multiple men who are not interested in sharing the world but are absolutely willing to share her.

It is intense, primal, and very much a guilty pleasure read. If you’re in the mood for something hot, fast, and full of dominant energy from every direction, you will not be disappointed.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
3,185 reviews
May 31, 2025
A sexy captivating read, you will read in one sitting guaranteed
The Alph shifters are renowned for always getting what they want, they never have to ask or to wait they simply take and this is what has happened and there is no getting back away from these captivating facts.
She is a virgin and she is informed by the Alpha Shifters that they are going to take her and claim her whether she likes it or not. They have told her that they are her going to make her their mate and that she will rutt her and eventually she will give them offspring.
When her mates have finished with her, she finds herself fast to sleep between her mates and all of them are her mates they will protect her and their young.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book and look forward to reading any future publications; keep up all the wonderful writing.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Profile Image for SJ.
815 reviews13 followers
June 10, 2025
This book had me hooked right away. There was so much action I just couldn't put the book down. The steam is scorching HOT, that said there is also plenty of plot that keeps the story interesting.

Post-apocalyptic world set in the future. Humans created hybrid people with different animals. After a war, the world is just starting to come back together.

Calla the FMC is a nurse she is taken by men who want to sell her along with other women. There is something different about her.

The wolf shifter pack includes brothers Gideon, Jace, Vance, Knox, Caleb, and Vance rescue the women from the captors. They have never felt this pull toward a woman before and one by one they recognize they are fated mates and want nothing more than to mate with her and breed her.

Fated mates
MMMMMMF
Breed
Multiple POV
Alpha heroes
Men obsessed and protective

Loved this book. It's a must-read if you'reinto RH shifter romance.
Profile Image for Sassy Angel.
2,936 reviews
June 30, 2025
This was an interesting story by Kelli Callahan. I couldn't put it down. I couldn't wait to see what happened next in the story. Calla is very close to becoming a nurse when she was taken from the world that she knows. She has been kidnapped and taken outside of the walls that have protected her. She isn't going to lay down and accept it though. She plans to escape and go back to her life along with the other women with her. The Tangle is a dangerous place. Vance, Gideon, Caleb, and Knox are wolf shifters that have been drawn to a scent. They know only the dangerous life in The Tangle and what happened before. Along the way, Calle discovers things about herself and her tie to the Aether. Will they be able to find happiness together?

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
1,566 reviews14 followers
June 12, 2025
This is one 🔥 🔥 🔥 book!
It has a unique and interesting concept and the possibility to make a really good series from the foundations put in place with this story.
This story follows Calla and her journey through The Tangle. It was great and had different layers to the story. I like Calla as she is feisty and independent and gets braver as the story goes on. I found the hierarchy of the pack interesting, along the concept of the Aether. I would love to know more about that in following books, if possible.
Boy, did this book get steamy. The pages practically sizzled. Spanking seemed to be a big theme for this story, and it was a touch OTT for me.
I liked the little twist and surprise at the end.
I thought the story is excellent!
Profile Image for Lisa A.
1,531 reviews13 followers
June 8, 2025
This was really good…
Nurse Calla thought that her tightly regimented life was on track, until she woke up in a cage on the wrong side of the city walls. Suddenly her and the other captives are forced to rely on their own ingenuity because things aren’t what they’ve been led to believe. They’re aided surreptitiously by genetically engineered hybrid ex-soldiers, Gideon, Jace, Caleb, Vance, and Knox. But everything comes at a price… I received a free copy of this book. This review was posted voluntarily.
Profile Image for Kristina.
87 reviews
July 15, 2025
Loved this apocalyptic story! Very different from others I've read in this genre. Its definitely a RH, touch her and you 💀, spicy, a little stalking too, possessive a-holes, knotting (weirdly just with one) fated mates, mention of abuse and definitely SA to the FMC and fellow k!dnapped women so be warned ⚠️ if this is a trigger for you. These males are savages and insanely Hot 🔥 In all I absolutely loved it and would love to read more of these characters 'cause there was not much of an epilogue. Maybe a book 2 in the future ?! Would totally want it. Absolutely recommend this book!
Enjoy 😉
Profile Image for Becky Ballinger.
7 reviews
November 10, 2025
Nature

I don't do reviews, it's hard for me to put thoughts down in written words. This was an exceptional story, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Eros, with Wolf Shifters as well. The storyline is riveting, makes a girl want her own Pack. Blending g the Future with the moral ethos of Civilization's humanity or lack of. Only to bring it back around to love, family and community. I saw it as a movie in my mind. I cried and want more of this storyline.
I






Profile Image for Syd Springer.
4,057 reviews6 followers
June 8, 2025
This was a really good book. Calla and her men were wonderful together. I really enjoyed the connection and chemistry between each man and Calla and as a group. This book had drama, steam, tension, love, and a really good HEA.

I received an e-book copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.
Profile Image for Brittany Steele.
93 reviews1 follower
June 20, 2025
So 👍 good

I M not gonna lie lol i was just in the mood for some steam ..and boy did i get it...with a story ta boot 👢 😳 it was so intriguing and well told ...her what she did at the last part to get silas had me hooting at 2 am lol ...with there was a second part...i realyyyy wanna know what they got feom there dad and any babys 👶.
Profile Image for Michelle.
10.7k reviews28 followers
June 22, 2025
This is a very steamy why choose, reverse harem, dark romance with drama, spankings, steam, and characters with intense chemistry. The author has created an amazing world filled with captivating and strong characters, and an interesting and steamy story that held my attention from the first page to the last. I voluntarily reviewed a copy of this book.
Profile Image for Elaine Scott.
7 reviews1 follower
July 22, 2025
Determine to win

I enjoy each character in this story from beginning to end. The city was designed as a mouse trap keeping everyone racing to get the cheese. The pack wanted revenge against those who harm them and receiving something they gave up on. Love and hope for a better future for the brothers.
Profile Image for Book Addict.
328 reviews
September 2, 2025
meh. I didn't enjoy the writing style of this at all. About halfway through, I skipped all the sex scenes just to get through the story. While there was a twist to the villain in the story, it just seemed to be written as a cartoon villain. It was over the top and left me with a "🤷🏼‍♀️" feeling when the story was finally over.
1,743 reviews12 followers
June 1, 2025
Cracking

A complex story with twists and turns, lots of adults only steamy romance, wofl shifters and more than a hint of the supernatural. A great read.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Profile Image for Jan.
87 reviews
June 28, 2025
Loved the spice in this, it was going in a great direction storyline and romance but then I feel like it just ends. Like it could be a second book if the writer wanted. I don’t know there are a lot of unanswered questions for me.
5 reviews
August 1, 2025
Good read

If you like fast burning stories. A lot of sexy time and a good story line. Read this book. Just disappointed we didn't get an ending update. Find out if Calla actually got pregnant. The ending was rushed.
624 reviews8 followers
September 1, 2025
It wasn’t bad, just a slow burn

This story is very slow to get to the point, a lot of repetitive & a lot of “punishment” other than that the story was not bad (wasn’t great either) but it was a quick read.
25 reviews
November 4, 2025
I Wish There Were More!

I was completely absorbed in this world through the whole book and finished in one sitting. I only wish there were more books to follow Calla and her pack as they heal the world and tame the Tangle!
1,066 reviews5 followers
November 11, 2025
loved it…

Wow…this is a tale that is not only super sexy but filled with suspense and thrills all the way through it. A definite must read for all those who love shifters with a difference.
Profile Image for Toni.
1,522 reviews4 followers
November 26, 2025
I really enjoy this author. The story, told from all POV, has some unexpected twists and turns while being spicy and action packed in the second half. I hope there is more books in this world. I don’t really classify this as a “dark” romance, though there is some violence.
28 reviews
June 14, 2025
DNF. Stopped at 54%

DNF. Just could not get into it. Stopped at 54% I was bored and didn't care what happened next. Not a big fan of a apocalyptic stories.

Displaying 1 - 30 of 37 reviews

Can't find what you're looking for?

Get help and learn more about the design.