Pregnant Bookish Mate of the Billionaire Lycan King: A Rejected Mate Secret Baby Shifter Romance

Possessive Small Town Alpha Kings #8

by Lira Flux, Kiara Sere

My father sold me to a billionaire to pay off his debt.
Nobody mentioned the billionaire was a literal werewolf king.
Or that I'm his fated mate.

I'm a nerdy chemistry researcher who writes secret spicy novels about possessive alpha heroes.
Escapist fantasy. Fiction. Not real.
Then my father's gambling debts catch up to him, and suddenly I'm collateral.

One satisfying deal between powerful men. One contract I wasn't allowed to read. And now I belong to Logan Redford for an entire year.
He's obscenely hot. Filthy rich. And he's moved me into his mansion as his "personal assistant."

The way he watches me? Like he's starving and I'm dinner. The way he pins me against bookshelves? Like he owns me already.
"I'm going to take you apart piece by piece. And you're going to beg me for more."

He's everything I've written about. Everything I've fantasized about.
And when he wrecks me so thoroughly I forget my own name, I think maybe I've finally found my own happily ever after.

Until I walk in on him mid-shift and discover my brooding billionaire is a seven-foot wolf monster with glowing eyes.
Before I can process any of it, he drags me before his pack and speaks the words that shatter
"I, Logan Redford, reject this human as my mate."

So I run. With a secret growing inside me that changes everything.
But when the Lycan King discovers I'm carrying his heir?

He'll tear apart worlds to drag me back.
Too bad I've decided he can grovel first.Pregnant Bookish Mate of the Billionaire Lycan King is a fun, rom-com-ish interconnected standalone with heavy angst and high spice. For best reading experience, start with book 1 Lycan King’s Rejected Bookish Mate!

Genres: Romantasy

788 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 7, 2025

Reviews

[redmamameka · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5 stars because holy sh*t this was almost 900 pages!!!!! The longest fucking read of my LIFE. MY ENTIRE LIFE, I tell you! I stuck with it out of pure spite.
I don't know where to start:
1. This should have been MAYBE 300 pages MAX!! But this author omfg this author drags every.single.thought out into chapters, CHAPTERS people!! Every single thought was just hashed and rehashed.
2. The editing. Sweet baby Jebus...the utter LACK of any/all editing. Multiple MULTIPLE multiple pages of repeated information. Insomuch that it gaslighted me to be like...wait, did I just read that.
3. Let's continue on the lack of editing....the plot. A great deal of the story did not make sense at all. I bookmarked at least a dozen or more plot inconsistencies that made zero sense or were in direct contrast to what was written. It was like multiple ideas on how the scene COULD go, were intertwined. Probably why the book was too long...she didn't cut scenes or honestly even re-read through the book itself before publishing.
4. I am pretty sure anyone who might have toiled through this with me was also grossed out and frankly, a bit medically concerned for them having sex TWO days after the baby was born! I mean...omg the hoo-hoo and reproductive organs are still tore tf up at two days post birth! Come on. *facepalm*
I could go on and on....but I believe points 1-4 hit home in excess.
PASS THIS ONE UP! Save yourself. Abandon ship! Seriously, just no.
Spice....🌶️🌶️🌶️ yeah there was some spice but man you gotta get over the gaping plot holes and inconsistency to even enjoy a minute of spice. Hard to do.

[Erin · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.5 stars. it was... almost... okay.

Insert expletive....have you ever finished an 850 page book and thought why TF did I read this whole book.

I feel like the Billy Madison quote, "everyone is now dumber" incoherent ramblings.

It started out promising. I love a good PNR, even the silly ones. But this book raised my blood pressure every other page. So much inconsistency, so much rambling, pages and pages of saying the same thing over and over. Someone wrote the perfect review about feeling gaslit. They weren't wrong. I found myself saying, didn't they just say that. Yes, yes they did. That's the ramblings. Hundreds of pages of rambling. Now this book was the most inconsistent book I have ever read. One paragraph would talk about Bella texting her friends, then the very next paragraph Logan is bringing her her phone. It went on and on. Camden (Beta) is telling Logan about a conversation he had with Bella, that half a chapter prior It was actually Logan having with Bella. I wish I documented every time it happened, but it seriously happened at least once a chapter. I'm being generous, it happened a lot.

To the point I wondered often while reading, are there a bunch of people handing off the manuscript as a joke, you write one paragraph and pass it along but you can only read the prior paragraph before writing your paragraph. Like no joke I wonder if this was how the book was written.

Now WTF was going on with Liana. On top of all the dumb pop ins, and her threats she placed towards Bella. It was OTT weird. Can we talk about her ending? Okay, how can this poor maid who got bribed by Liana get tortured to death, slowly. But, Liana, the mastermind behind Bella's abduction gets cast out of the pack. I'm beyond livid with that ending. I'm still angry about this.

I also didn't like Logan's character development. He was an unpleasant guy from start to finish. Completely flat, he showed no real growth. Even when they tried to check those boxes, it felt forced.

Why did I keep reading this, I don't know. I guess there's a tiny bit of me that enjoyed parts of the story. It had potential, but the execution was terrible.

[Mary Dian Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

Don't read unless you want a spoiler

Really enjoyed the books til the whole getting frisky 2 effing days after giving birth thing in this one. Gross. Ruined rest of book, the other book before this was good, but this was definitely a fatal flaw. The premise is that mom is a human, therefore, humans generally don't feel like getting it on days (weeks even sometimes) after birth. Birth is a traumatic experience, even premature births. I don't know why it was a necessity for it to play out like that...... And these writers need a better editor, there was a few places where text was unnecessarily repeated. Well I can't say I'll forget this book anytime soon.

[Jenny · Rating 2 out of 5]

Had promise, has significant troubles

Let me be very clear, I feel bad leaving four star reviews and I gave this two stars for the following reasons.

- First this book, at minimum needs a heavy editing hand. There were several passages throughout the book that were written one way then the scene started over again and were written in a different way. It felt very "choose your own adventure" meets "no one edified this" meets "we accidentally uploaded the previous draft, not the finalized book"

- Second, the general premise of the book for the first several chapters had SUCH promise, I was so excited to see where it all went. Then the middle of the book hit and it felt like reading a woman slowly becoming trapped in a relationship with a narcissist who love bombed, started with coercive control tactics, and then became emotionally and psychologically abusive.

- Going off the previous two points, multiple times the entire premise of the book shifted and the continuity of the book was entirely trashed. Several times they'd known each other for a few days then in the next paragraph it was several weeks. Another time he was missing her for 3.5 months and on the previous page it was 5+ months.

- Thirdly, while I suspect this was supposed to be following the forced proximity, fated mates, grumpy/sunshine, second chance, overprotective alphahole tropes (they actually have a scene where they list out all of the tropes they hit on jokingly) it actually reads as a diagnostic for what falling into an abusive relationship actually looks like.

- Lastly, the HEA is shaky at best. There's very little to no actual behavioral change on MMCs part and every boundary the FMC sets for him to abide by to build trust back is later repealed because of his needs. The only thing that's solidly written about it is his constant apologies and acknowledgment that he hurt her and won't do it again. They bond and she can feel his love and whatnot for her, but love isn't the problem for him - it's how he twists that "love" for her into coercive control - and his thought patterns at the end of the story do not indicate that he had put in any work to change those which personally left me feeling like she'd end up getting love bombed and abused by him again. Mal and Aaron even joked at the end they don't believe it and have a dismemberment plan in case Logan does it again.



Petty things that bothered me:
- Billionaire MMC offers 50k for info on FMC when she leaves him after trapping her in his house for "protection" and he frames it as "enough money for friends and family to give up info on her" while previously in the book he had her go shopping and spent 650k on new clothes/etc. and didn't blink at all saying that money was nothing to him.
- Portals are mentioned as a way for her to escape from being kept prisoner in his house against her will at a way later point than necessary from her friends. If that was on the table, it would've been a first option not a third round of this later offered option.
- Camden literally had so much potential, in many different avenues, and drops the ball in all of them and then suddenly has a wife out of nowhere at the end.
- The FMC on the cover in no way, shape, or form, matches the FMC on page. The cover art shows a brunette with straight hair and no glasses, the on page FMC is a curly blonde with glasses.
- Bella goes back to her research job at the end "with less teaching" ... she did not teach regularly and that was stated explicitly in the beginning, only on as as needed basis, and she hated it. So again, continuity issues.


To be clear, I wanted to love this book so much, it had and still has SUCH potential to be an amazing story. It just needs a heavy editing hand, someone to keep the timeline straight, and more awareness of abuse patterns and what successful tru recovery and healing from that looks like on both ends.

Ex: a low hanging fruit example- After having her live in and getting to know her better, at a specific decision point Bella could have helped with the research into her blood and been kidnapped from the lab at his R&D center at his office after getting sucked into the chemistry of it. It would've kept the same concerns active and the reaction about it happening from Logan would've been the same and it would've kept her story more purposeful from beginning through the middle to the end.

[Kat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Only finished because it’s related to books 6/7/9

KU gives me a chance to take a chance on new -to-me authors and I enjoy getting the chance to read the stories that folks have followed through and published. It’s a hard thing to put their book out into the world and risk criticism, I admire that courage because I’ve yet to publish.
What I say below is not meant as crusty but educational from an avid romance reader of 30+ years
I love the trope of this series- rejected mates & second chances but this book has nearly ruined it for me.
Multiple authors working together can usually mean a tight story but it’s apparent there was very little collaborating in this one. The world building differences between books 6-7-8 is evidence of this.

Some moments told from the male character view and then retold from the female view made me feel like I’d tripped into a manic dark bully romance at times.
From chapter to chapter there was confusion as Bella stated she has not and will not tell him things and the next chapter Logan is speaking about things like she had just told him. Plot points like who knows he’s a shifter, if he knows about the portals, he doesn’t know about the portals- who went thru a portal?
Bella doesn’t cross the portal but then later it’s indicated she had returned from them? I’d apologize for a spoiler but the tagline and blurb both indicate Logan will tear down worlds for her-clearly indicating the portals would come into play. Maybe a couple chapters got left out of the final book.

Ugh, by the time I got to chapter 40 I knew I would finish it only because I love the Edward Sparkles book club. But sometimes the continuity in this story was bipolar and I think the authors must be very inexperienced storytellers. Things like he had a key he used to get in the room- later he’d only just had the key made and was using for the first time.
Other conflicting plot points like she’s texting then JE comes I. The room to bring her the phone she forgot- this made me start to wonder if there were 4 or 5 versions of this story and without reading each other’s work they just merged it all together into this - book 8.

Fingers crossed Kristins story makes up for this or book 9 is where I will stop and not bother with the remain 40+ other books in this series.
Which is sad cuz as a lifelong avid reader I always want to read ALL the books.

[Lanabanana · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book felt like actual rage bait

This book was so inconsistent. It’s literally stupid like one second Camden knows about Bella and then in the other second he doesn’t know about her. in the first chapter, Logan says that he knows that Bella knows about shifters because of her friends and then when she went to heal Camden suddenly he was like “how do you know about shifters?”, they were literally having sex and he said oh shifters can’t get human diseases and then she was so surprised when she found out that he was a shifter like girl he’s literally said it. and also they went shopping and she spent about $600,000 and then when it came to a formal dinner, she said that she doesn’t have anything formal to wear like make it make sense. Then the formal dinner WAS NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN WHEN IT WAS SOOOOO IMPORTANT.
And then she tells him to leave the pack and go away with her and he’s saying how it’s pretty much impossible and then the next second he’s telling her that he can step down and leave the pack for her and she’s acting surprised and asking him like how can you do that? Is it really possible like what the fuck and then Camden tells Logan that he should step down, and that the pack will see it as him choosing his family and prioritizing them over anything, and that they will survive without him like they always did before him, and when Logan actually decided to do that he told him that it’s not possible and how he can’t do that and then the pack won’t survive and that there will be repercussions and consequences and then right after he said this, he changed his mind AGAINN and he kept on telling him about how that’s not selfish at all and that he thinks that he’s making the right choice like bitch make up your fucking mind ,it feels like this author just wrote a bunch of fucking different scenarios and forgot to delete the ones she wanted or something.

And it’s sooo repetitive, she had the same convo with herself and her friends so many times, she also had the same conversation with him many many times MANY CONVERSATIONS WERE REPEATED LIKE CRAZY

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

good book

Overall, I truly enjoyed the storyline and thought it was great. Definitely a cute story and an (mostly) enjoyable read.

*****SPOILERS*****



However, there were two things that I did not like that made it hard for me to enjoy the book as much as I wanted.
1) inconsistencies.
- There were some parts that the author seemed to forget they had or had not mentioned previously, so it left you a bit confused.
- And one or two parts where it seems like they wrote one scene one way, then wrote it another way and forgot to take out the original.
- The timeline on things.
- Or how the text threads were set up. It was one way for the majority of the book and then was changed randomly later on. In those text threads there were a couple errors with who said what. But it happens, so it’s not as big of a deal as you were mostly able to follow along.

2) THE BIGGEST ISSUE: having s** two days after giving birth. This was so dangerous and really made me not want to finish the last bit of the book. I know that this is just fiction, but I felt that it took away from Logan’s sincerity regarding putting Bella’s health and safety first. Kinda nullified a lot of the progress he made and soured the book. She’s still human, which means that she doesn’t heal the same way shifters do, so she should have waited the 6 week minimum after having a child. Idk. I know she wasn’t pressured into anything but it just really took away from the growth of the characters and made it seem like their relationship was more physical, instead of the deep soul bond it was supposed to be. Kinda made me sad because I was excited to see them grow into their relationship/bond the right way.

[rebecca kendall · Rating 3 out of 5]

Where to begin

I really would love to give 5 stars. The story line is really good BUT the inconsistency is so horrible. It’s almost as if it’s written by several different people and none of them on the same page. So there is going to be some SPOILER in this post. List some of the errors. Find a better proof reader or pay more attention.
• first the description of the book is not even close
• first he said he saw Bella’s picture at a function on her dads phone. Then it was a picture on his desk.
• Then he told Camden about her and the blood and then Camden got hurt and she saved him and he acted like it was the first time learning she had special blood
• Then he told her she would need to get a physical for work purposes. Then the next chapter Camden brings up her blood and he tell the King to test her blood and act like it’s for work purposes. But he already did that
• when she went to stay with him she had none of her clothes or laptop. She was having to use her phone to write her book. A chapter later she was wearing her clothes and had her laptop. They never went and got them or had them sent.
I could keep going and going but I think this is enough.

[Shanti · Rating 2 out of 5]

lycan kings book 3 of the best friends

This book had a lot of errors. There were times they talked about stuff, then in the next chapter mentioned it like it was the first time. For example, when they talked about the shifters from Lytopia, or when they slipped and mentioned stuff that had not been previously addressed like knowing about shifting. Also, it was egregious when they kept getting Wen and Daphne's children and ages incorrect. Wen's boy should have been about 3 or 4 years old, but they said he was almost 2. And they mentioned she was having a third child but never addressed when she had the second baby. Also about a year had passed after Daphne's story but her little girl was still 6 months old. Stuff like that. The continuity of these ladies was not followed in the book. I will still read about Kristen though. Just disappointed. I'm okay with the predictability of the plots-- red rejected mate b as by plot. That fine but please do better regarding the errors. Also!!!! How did these authors mess up Daphne's mate Aurion's name. He was called Aaron throughout this book. Shameful!!!!!

[Paola ☆ · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.75💫

Me la pasé bomba con este libro.
Mi favorito hasta ahora.

Si bien tiene algunos tropiezos que me hicieron dudar de Logan, logra remontar en el último acto. Pero apenas.
Y es que el asunto de la persecución si bien fue de mis momentos favoritos, la autora se desliza al extremo al hacerme plantear por un momento que Bella tiene miedo de Logan. Como genuino miedo. Lo que lo pintaría entonces como el villano al ser un carcelero abusivo más bien que su caballero. Eso me saco de la fantasía.
Sin embargo, con el último acto y he de decir las palabras, acciones y si, súplicas del él logré perdonarlo junto con la protagonista.

Siento que fue más bien tema de la autora que no supo plantear el temor a ser encontrada. No sé exactamente cómo explicarlo la verdad, pero sé que hay una diferencia en estas obras y no la supo plantear.

En fin, fuera de eso lo disfruté mucho, lo recomiendo y lo volvería a leer.

[Jenni Pugh · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 ⭐️ generously

I actually loved this book and I would read it again, pending an actual edit. And rate it much higher. For
The love of God, please please edit this book. There is so much potential here.

There were so many inconsistencies. So many, in fact, that I was pulled out of the world too many times to count. And honestly I was going to rate it higher but then she has the baby and the sex was spoiled(team green until somehow he just knew when she needed to hear it) and then team green again? Girl get outta here. Then a baby born at 28 weeks(but please how was it 28 weeks when there was a line that said “months later when she was 6.5 months pregnant; I would have thought she was full term)? Have you guys ever had a NICU baby bc I have and it was crazy that it was so big and completely fine…
Anyway, I feel like I’ve been through the wringer but I really did enjoy it.

[Terry L · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty good…couple of things that got in the way

So I read the first “Bookish Mate..” where the four book club friends accidentally brought the Lycan king from another dimension and he ended up with the bookstore owner. That was good, a different spin on the fated/rejected mate trope with some good humor. The next in the series was this one, the same book club friends with the focus being on a different member of the group as the FMC. I liked this plot even more than the first one, but a couple of things got in the way. The first was that paragraphs and even whole pages of the text were repeated throughout the book. I repeatedly came across paragraphs and thought, “Wait I just read that.” The second thing was that the MC’s resumed relations two days after the human FMC had given birth (sorry, that just gave me the ick).

[Fizzle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Editing issues

The book was okay. The story is basically the same as the book before it. It lacks humor. It had editing issues that really slowed down and in some cases stopped the flow of the book. Two Major editing mistakes that really bothered me was where (1)the main characters said things that never happened in No book...like portal travel by a certain character.
I stopped reading and went back I to check and no they never happened. I think that the rough draft and final draft of the book had a few significant changes and for some reason the changes made to the final draft was never made . Completely missed by the editing team.
The other Most common editing issues were when characters were called or referenced to in a text message by an incorrect name

[Rabya Qasid · Rating 3 out of 5]

tiring to read

I read the whole book and about half way through, it became more forced than me enjoying the book.

The story line was good to begin with but almost felt repetative. Every few pages the characters thought process was repeated with the same words througout the book.

The time line was jumping all over the place. In one paragraph the FMC was 8 months pregnant, in the next paragraph a month or so had gone by and in the next paragraph she was still 8 months pregnant. Almost felt as if because the story was soo long, the authors forgot parts of what was written previously.

I dont think il be reading anything else from this series.

[Krystal · Rating 3 out of 5]

another good read though there were some missing pieces

I was annoyed that they changed the spelling of Daphnes mate. And there were a few details towards the end that didn’t add up. Like she had already cut her father out of her life, so to call him up and state that felt overkill. And then when they were on the beach and he proposed to her where was her son?
Overall I liked it, the struggle, the resistance from her. Although the arch was good, I felt like he did a 180 with his personality at the end. Didn’t feel as genuine as it could have been. Still I liked that they got their HEA.

[Janet Armentani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good romantacy

Some spoilers.....

First, I love the story plot, but please please can we collaborate better?

When Bella is sold off she has nothing but her purse and phone. Then all of a sudden she has her laptop and own clothes. Hmmmmm. A calendar would be good too.....first she's gone for 3 months, then 5 months, but she's 8 months pregnant.... Its very confusing. Plus the day after she gives birth, he's been " sleeping outside for days since you gave birth "
Also confusing. Details can make or break a goid story. Last thing, formatting. The last few chapters were not formatted the same as the rest of the book and felt like they were just thrown in for word counts.

[Mikaila Silva · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay this book seriously needs some editing and therapy. I love the series overall but if you read the first two you know there’s a lack of consistency with detail, like Daphne and Wens children count and names of children. That was a little frustrating because it would take you right out of the story. Also the epilogue when (spoiler) they get married, how does beta Camden already have a wife and kids? Weird, timeline didn’t add up either. It kept saying a week later, two months later then it would say I’ve only been here five days total???? Good story and plot, poor execution. Don’t even get me started on the post birth sex??

[O’rion Risher · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book needs some serious editing. The sex is redundant, the writing is redundant and it’s almost like the author forgot they had already had sex before when she wrote about them about to have sex and both stopped to tell each other they need a condom and are clean… this only mattered to them after 6 times of previous sex without a condom? She’s on birth control even though she’s a virgin?

The MMC is a creep waving big red flags and I just wanted her to escape him the entire time. I hate him.

[Connie Lopez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book overall

I enjoyed the story and the strength the fmc found part way through, but the author seemed to forget hey own story. There was a lot of repetitive thoughts and even though it seemed the timeline was months, the author kept saying weeks. Comments were made that didn't agree with the beginning of the story. FMC didn't know he was a shifter, yet he made a comment about him being a shifter when they were intimate. This book could have been 300 pages shorter if the repetitiveness was taken out.

[Chris Hagler · Rating 2 out of 5]

Plot is good but needs an editor

The plot is good but this really needs to be professionally edited. There are many times paragraphs repeat, many times people contradict themselves, and many time discrepancies. Plus there are things that make no biological sense... like her having sex multiple times after she literally just gave birth (baby is 2 days old). Like I said, good plot but needs editing.

[Sujati · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved it!

There were a few discrepancies throughout the book, a lot of repeated text from one page to the next and a pregnancy that didn’t line up with the timeline of the story (days passed but she stayed 8 months pregnant), plus no woman on earth would have sex two days after giving birth. But all of this aside, I couldn’t put this book down. The storyline itself was worth the little annoyances.

[Carlie Haddock · Rating 1 out of 5]

If inconsistencies was a competition this book would win hands down. I love paranormal romance but there was so much of repeated or like she didn't have her phone but text the group chat? She didn't have any of her own clothes but had her favorite planet leggings? I got to page about 300 before I couldn't stand the terrible editing. It has promise to be a really great book, but it needs a major rewrite.

[Carol Darling · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sold

Her father never saw her as family only as an asset to exploit. When he got in debt with the Lycan King of the area he gladly sold her to the King for a year and hid the truth from her. At first touch a bond formed but the self important male he could have her all to himself without any input from her on how her life goes. He kept too many secrets lost trust. How can they survive that. Good Adult Read.

[Amanda · Rating 1 out of 5]

Good story but

There were so many inconsistencies that it made it difficult to finish the story. Timelines didn't match up - she was 7 months pregnant, then was pregnant for months and delivered at 32 weeks. Her friend d expressed interest in another character then he was at the wedding with his wife and kids. I liked the sort but its almost like there was no proof reading.

[Caroline · Rating 1 out of 5]

I finished this book out of spite. I was really hoping it would get better but it simply never did…871 pages of blah. I question why I did this to myself. The dialogue was so incredibly repetitive that it brought you out of the story and the timeline/ small details didn’t add up and weren’t consistent through the book. Overall, wouldn’t even recommend it to an enemy.

[Reader · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not entirely convinced AI didn't write this book, or there wasn't amnesia involved, or maybe two authors wrote this and there was 0 communication or editing.. I stopped reading when they started having sex 2 days after she gave birth.. I was over 800 pages in, trying to get through this purely out of spite and I caved because of sex.. who would have thought

[Kieya · Rating 1 out of 5]

The worst one of the series

I don't know if I'm too woke but that contract business gave "slave". He treated her like her father did but it's hidden behind some mate bond. The wolf was a better mate to her than the man I had to stop reading because he was getting too bossy like she was a sex slave DNF

[RandomRedRadish · Rating 1 out of 5]

Forced myself to finish reading it. Way too inconsistent and repetitive. Not to mention the plot holes.

[Maruxa · Rating 4 out of 5]

4⭐️ La idea me encantó. Él libro está lleno de errores e incoherencias, pero si consigues obviar todo eso se merece las 4 estrellas