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Rejected and Exiled Pregnant Mate of the Lycan King: A Rejected Mate Secret Baby Shifter Romance

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I was mated, marked and pregnant by the Lycan King-
then he rejected me because his sick brother died in my arms.

I was hired as a healer to save the Lycan king's dying brother.

But when I met the Calli, the Lycan King, the mating bond flared alive.

Calli marked me beneath the blood moon, fangs sinking deep.
“You’re mine. Forever. Nothing will take you from me.”

By dawn, his brother was dead and I was accused of murder.

I stood before his court and begged him to believe me.
To trust the bond burning between us.

He looked at me with cold golden eyes and said,
“I reject this bond. I reject you.”

Then he ripped my mark from his neck with his bare hands.

They hunted me into the forest like an animal.
Left me bleeding in the dirt to die.

But I survived long enough to discover I carried his twins.
I swore he’d never find them.
I was wrong.

Calli

I chose rage over her.
Exile over trust.
I condemned my mate and it’s been destroying me ever since.

The bond was supposed to die when I tore her mark away.
Instead, it bled for five years while I searched for the woman I threw away.

Then I found her with children.
Two perfect four-year-olds raised to believe their father didn’t want them.

She looked at me like I was a monster and said,
“You don’t get to claim us now.”

“I was wrong,” I told her.

She thinks she can keep running.
Keep hating me.
Keep denying the bond still pulling her to me.

But I’m done being the king who let her go.

Rejected and Exiled Pregnant Mate of the Lycan King is a rejected mate, secret baby shifter romance featuring a feral alpha king MMC who will burn kingdoms to claim the family he lost and his healer FMC. This story is intended for 18+ readers only due to its mature content and themes.

894 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 4, 2025

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January 8, 2026
4 and 5 star reviews lack substance. And this book is ENTIRELY TOO LONG, first indication of a lack of good writing and storytelling.

First of all, Rissa was rejected, not their children, as he didn’t even know about them. Her raising children to believe their other parent who didn’t know about them first was dead, but that deplorable act lie Rissa was busted on by said children, or didn’t want them was 100% wrong of her. Period. No, she did not have to lie as she proclaimed. Makes her a deplorable parent. She doesn’t have the right to deny her children their father just because she was hurt by him rejecting their mate bond and not costing her over his duty.
Moving on.

Why would Rissa have a totally incompetent assistant? She’s a healer, she’s supposed to be competent, so why was she entertaining incompetence, time always wasted by her having to redo remedies when someone’s health is on the balance? Riiiiight. Ridiculousness. And Rissa says she’s taking Veronica because Veronica was the only one she can trust, but she can’t even trust Veronica to prepare needed tinctures or medicine correctly!! Makes zero sense having Veronica. She never gets anything right, so why would Rissa agree to let her handle something so important as treatment of the prince by herself, letting Veronica talk into it because Veronica comments how she is so exhausted, let her go, she can’t do it when history shows otherwise?!

Rissa is there undercover, so how is it a cousin of a servant knows what the council did in secrecy? No one else was in the healing chamber, no one else other than the royal healers and guards, but conveniently later a servant was there? Who was then able to tell her also a servant cousin who is then overheard by the king telling someone else? And the council was keeping it quiet, so when was it that it became common knowledge to others?

The royal healers knew she was there in secret, so why would they be complaining about her wearing a cloak and hood that concealed her? That didn’t make any sense at all.

Also, didn’t make sense that the king hadn’t addressed the issue of what the council did behind his back, or the royal healers lying to him, when his own brother, the prince, told him that they were not the ones healing him.

Rissa tells the king that no one can know about them, yet she tells Veronica? How is she adamant that no one knows, but then she tells someone? Someone who somehow is spending time with court ladies, when she’s a servant, and that would not happen in the society world built in the book. Rissa has felt discomfort with Veronica but she’s sharing what’s supposed to be secret and showing Veronica things given to her? And the debate between she and Veronica, no, Veronica is incompetent, it was stupid. Why is it that one of the Royal healers is having to tell her that Veronica needs to be dismissed? Which doesn’t happen even after more errors. And again, court ladies are not going to socialize with servants. Period.
And why would Rissa not say something about Veronica’s behavior, the increasing mistakes made with the treatment mixes? Why is Rissa continuing to correct Veronica‘s mistakes knowing they’ve been deadly ones and she shouldn’t be doing anything? Come on with such ridiculousness. NO healer would tolerate such. None. Rissa is written an idiot!

The Lycan King is written to be super weak. He doesn’t confront the council, he’s sneaking around from the counsel, and this is the same council that sought out a healer to cure the prince so why? Why is there not him putting the council in their place, that they serve him, not he serve the council? He’s supposed to be the most powerful Lycan, yet he allows disrespect from Lord Kelton? Multiple times? By the council in general. He is the king, they are the council to counsel! Council guards, who are at the direction of the council but ultimately answer to the king, are openly and actively going against their king? The guard that is supposed to serve the king above all? And dozens of guards keep coming, sent by treasonous council? And what’s done about it by this supposedly strongest Lycan king? Why wasn’t the council destroyed? This whole storyline was ridiculous.

It doesn’t make sense that weeks are going by and the princess is still not healed. This occurring over several days, week at the most, OK. The timeline that is being given is beyond suspension of disbelief. And no way the head healer would continue to allow Veronica. None. There’s a whole lot of nonsense writing that brings the story down into the ridiculous and a struggle to get through reading.

Rissa is not as tall as Calli so his shoulder would not brush hers. First sex encounter between Rissa and Calli was big cringy. The sex dialogue was way too human male from Callie and just not giving being Rissa. The talk was too filthy for their first time together, after all the waiting in anticipation and supposed reverence that’s supposed to be there. After they both finish the first time, Callie says he wants to taste her. He finished inside her, his “juices” would be way more prominent. The way it is written, that fact is lost and it’s like it hadn’t happened. He would be tasting himself with her. And of course, there’s the overused cliché “beg for it” statement made. Saying how “She was mine, broken and begging, exactly how I wanted her” (get out of here with that nonsense bs) after Rissa “dissolved into incoherent sobs… incoherent now, babbling fragments.” Followed by what’s supposed to be some coherent fragments. WHY?! This idiocy is followed by more idiocy of Callie AGAIN saying how he was to hear her beg “properly first.” At this point I just skipped the rest of their first time together, thought it was done, but no, he’s knotted in her and AGAIN TELLS HER TO BEG FOR IT. I skip again while seriously considering not continuing this book. Heavy concern this will be a DNF as I press on. Sexy time needs to be just that, sexy and hot. Not cringe worthy as this is. And I repeat it should not have been filthy, this was overdone. This came off as a dominance wannabe. I have read good to excellent written dominance, including that which can be described as filthy with the hot and sexy, and this not it.

When Lord Kelton came with accusations about Rissa going into the prince’s chambers during the night, he says that he was poisoned by the vines that were missing from her locked cabinet. She didn’t tell anyone about that, since she had dumb thoughts of maybe she misplaced it. There was no time that she wouldn’t talk to anybody, at least not on the pages written. And Callie could tell that the head royal healer was lying, though didn’t confront him on it, seem to never confront anyone on their doings, but conveniently can’t tell when Lord Kelton is, or the servant boy who was questioned? Uh huh. Convenient. And Lord Kelton continuously gets away with way too much. Why? It makes zero sense for five years? Really? Again, absolutely unbelievable, and surpasses suspension of disbelief. The council does not share power with the king, the council has duties to the king. Failing their duty should be treason, so why wasn’t it handled? Where are the other council members, Kelton is not the only one, but reading this you would think that is the case. Veronica‘s usefulness ended, there’s no way they would keep her there, she should have found out real quick just how much she was being used. Should have read about how she was tossed aside, not five years later that she’s part of the court and very much present like she actually had status. It was absolutely ridiculous. The investigation into Kelton and Veronica and the council at large that was supposed to have occurred shortly after the exile, nothing ever happens and it’s then five years later.

Rissa is continued to be written an idiot. She was TOLD by the guards who were told to take her safely to the border that they didn’t care what the king said they were going to hurt and kill her, and the king would never know, so WHY is she constantly talking about Callie wanting her dead?!!

While 4 year olds can be very talkative, even have intelligence beyond their year, the children written here are too much in how they talk, their content, they are overwritten. Percival is reading medical text, expresses “I’m sitting right here reading. That’s hardly doing what I want.” Pearl responds “You like reading those boring books.”, he responds “They are not boring. This chapter explains how bones heal after breaking. The process is actually quite fascinating.” THEY’RE 4! NO 4 years old is even remotely as what was written in this book.

Yep DNF, this book is disjointed, choppy, does not follow its own storyline, things previously mentioned are later changed in detail, or never addressed. Issues continued long past what’s believable. World building is lacking. I skimmed and then full on skipped chapters50% in, dipping in and finding foolishness continues and gave up. These two authors writing together do not work. The story premise was failed by extremely horrible execution. I had an additional book from the series in my library that I just got rid of without reading.

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683 reviews16 followers
December 30, 2025
This book is almost 900 pages 😱 and that’s way too long for a shifter, rejected mate romance book. (Possible spoilers ahead)

🚩Full transparency…I read until the 50% mark, then I started to skim until the end. This book was pretty much over at 50%. The couple was reunited, fully back together, and were both King and Queen. They even had a new 3 month old baby daughter. After the 50% mark, it was just random baddies or problems pop up that the couple had to work together to fix. Then……there is the ending 10% of this book spent on a co-character dying from the “wasting disease” which sounds like cancer. It was sad….and frankly, very depressing to read about. 😭 so yeah…this book doesn’t end all happy and sweet. 🚩

The first 50% of this book was decent. It’s what I expect in a decent rejected mate, shifter book.

h is a healer. She is summoned because the King’s brother is sick. She arrives with her friend/assistant and they are both told to stay away from the King. Basically, they can heal the brother, but the Royal healers will claim credit for it. (Not sure why that wasn’t a red flag)
Anyway, H and h meet. FATED MATES. (It’s a long book so there’s a lot of mundane details scattered throughout)

Eventually, they mark each other, they are in love, and they are having smex.

Then H’s brother dies. All evidence leads to h poisoning him. Even h’s friend/assistant testified against her.
Man! The rejection is brutal. I will admit my eyes watered a bit during this. H literally ripped the mate mark off his shoulder. h was crying and begging. Her POV was just so sad. Even his POV was sad. He was supposed to have her put to death, but at the last minute, he exiled her instead. The soldiers took her and they almost R’ed her. She was able to escape, but she was badly wounded. An old couple found her, healed her, and basically took her in as their daughter.

What ☠️ me- H started to immediately suspect he was fed the wrong information about h. Ya think, you big dum dum? 🤦‍♀️

Something like 4/5 years pass. h has twin 4 year olds. (They are not normal kids nor do they talk like 4 year olds) and they all travel all over with the old couple.

During these 4/5 years, things are NOT going well for H. His shoulder won’t heal (where he tore off the mate mark) and his wolf no longer comes out. GOOD 👍 he deserves it! He has been looking for h this whole time. He also knows she had kids. He finds out where they are around the same time the counsel finds out. He arrives right as the assassins arrive. He fights them off. The kids immediately know he’s their papa. 🤪

So the semi groveling starts. They both have to work together to protect the kids while also working on their relationship. They have to learn to trust each other to defeat the baddie (which is known from the start- the counsel. It’s always the counsel) and the jealous ex BFF.
Then you have where the kid(s) are kidnapped, then the final showdown.
That’s the first 50% of the book. It should have ended there. It didn’t. 😩
The author’s tacked on more drama, kidnapping, baddies, OW drama, and death….and sprinkles of smut.

There is spice in this book. Some parts were spicy, then some parts were just bizarre. The h would be the one with the filthy mouth. It was almost like author 1 decided to write the first smex bit, then author 2 would do the next one. It was a weird combination.

I could definitely tell there were two authors writing this book. I felt some scenes were spliced together. They didn’t flow and were very choppy. It was so obvious when the authors would switch (if that makes sense?) 🤷‍♀️

There’s no reason this book should be this long, IMO
807 reviews1 follower
December 7, 2025
The Best

Of this entire Series so far, This Is The Finest Story of all!!!! Ironically, everytime I have tried to rate a story, I failed thru some glitch. I Rate This Story. 5+ Stars ...... Actually I would give it a 10*. When a story brings out so many emotions .... remembering it is easy. This one is a keeper.
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11 reviews
December 10, 2025
You will laugh, yell and cry!

Omg... yes this book is long and yes you will go on a roller coaster of emotions! You have to read this book but have kleenex next to you or within reach. By the end you will cry because you can relate to alot of the characters. This is a romantasy but the message in the end about family and growing is absolutely the best!!
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January 10, 2026
Rejected and Exiled Pregnant Mate of the Lycan King

This was a saga. There was at least three or four books rolled into one. I was annoyed at first I wasn't sure what decade we were it I thought you had invention were from the 21st century. Oh well a good story.
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1,364 reviews1 follower
January 13, 2026
Great

I realise these stories are a collaborative effort but the last few books have been superior and show a maturity in the effort that are engrossing and pull out the emotions of the reader.
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