The Reluctant Mates Series Boxed Set 2

A Rejected Mate Werewolf Romance

By: Umme Kulsum

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Alpha's Bride

One deal, one mistake, one impossible choice.

All I ever wanted was to escape the world of wolves - not be forced into a loveless marriage with Ashton, the Alpha of Nightclaw, and be tied down forever.

But being the only human in a pack of wolves, my desires mattered little.

So he offers me a deal: marry him, give him an heir, and then I can walk away, leaving Nightclaw and him behind forever.

But as I get to know him, I do the one thing I swore I wouldn’t - I fall in love with the Alpha.

When Ashton’s buried secrets resurface, shattering my heart, I am left grappling with the truth of our relationship.

Had Ashton ever truly loved me, or had the lines between love and hatred blurred for me alone?

As the ghosts of the past threaten to tear us apart, a startling revelation shakes my core.

I am pregnant with the Alpha’s child.

With enemies closing in and betrayal lurking around every corner, the pack’s survival is on the line, and I find myself right in the middle of it all.

When you fall for the Alpha, there’s no running from the wolves.

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The Rejected Luna

In a pack where duty comes before love, heartaches are born out of sacrifices. And, sometimes, being the Luna means letting your Alpha marry another mate.

Finding out that Alpha Nikolas was my fated mate was like my wildest dream come true.

Until the letter from Shadowmoon arrived, shattering our world.

The Alpha of Shadowmoon had served us an ultimatum: Either Nikolas marry his daughter or Nightcreek will face war.

Being a pack that dwelled in love and harmony, Nightcreek could not survive a war. It was a death sentence for us.

So Nikolas rejected me, stripping me of my title and my place in his heart.

I retreated into the shadows but my love for him remained, and so did a secret — I was carrying his child.

One single night... and I was pregnant with the Alpha's baby.

Mate less, pregnant, and with the elders trying to set me up with wolves from the rival pack, there seems to be no ray of light in the darkness that surrounds me.

Tensions rise and betrayal lurks in the shadows. But how do you protect your pack when the Alpha wants nothing to do with the mate he rejected?

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The Lost Luna

Falling in love with the Alpha of the rival pack was not in my plans.

Neither was getting pregnant with his child.

Escaping the torment of my pack, however? That had always been my plan.

Abandoned in the forest as a baby, I was taken in by the Nightstar pack.

As the only human among wolves, they made sure I knew my place - branding me with scars and keeping me shackled until I yearned for the death they had saved me from.

They took everything from me, but not my hope for freedom.

Desperation makes me flee Nightstar overnight and I run to the enemy's pack, offering my gifted healing abilities in exchange for protection.

But my arrival stirs old wounds in Ashmoon, reigniting their sorrow for the Luna they had lost — because I am her haunting image.

Then the forbidden lines blur and I fall in love with Daren - the Alpha of Ashmoon. Hard.

He saw traces of her in me and vowed to shield my heart from the pain he could not forget.

But I'm pregnant with Daren's baby.

And soon, I find myself back in Nightstar, chained to the cold walls once again.

Will Daren come for me or will our love be lost in the shadows forever?

The Reluctant Mates Series ~ Boxed Set 2 (Books 4–6)

The Reluctant Mates Series ~ Boxed Set 2 (Books 4–6) ~~ By the time I started Boxed Set 2, I was already emotionally invested ~ and this set takes everything up a notch. The stakes are higher, the relationships are messier, and the consequences of earlier choices really start to show. Again, I switched between Kindle reading and Audible listening, which made it easy to stay immersed even on busy days.

This set leans heavily into second chances and the idea that love isn’t always easy ~ especially when pride, fear, and pack politics get in the way. The female characters continue to shine with strength and resilience, while the male leads are forced to confront their mistakes in very real ways. Some moments were frustrating in the best way, the kind that makes you yell at the book but keeps you turning pages anyway.

The Audible narration deserves special mention here because the emotional tension is strong in this set. The narration captured the regret, longing, and slow rebuilding of trust beautifully. On Kindle, I found myself highlighting moments that hit especially hard emotionally.

If you like rejected-mate stories where the grovel actually matters and redemption isn’t handed out too easily, this boxed set really delivers.

I would definitely recommend this book and series and can’t wait to start on the next book. If you want to know what happens next, you’ll just have to read this series yourself ~ you won’t regret it.

3 individual stories

Overall they were really good but not at all related to each other. Three individual stories on three different Lunas. Audio was not that great, lots of mispronunciations and mo emotion.

Not One continuous Story

While each story was good, I was disappointed that the stories were not tied together at all--a shame since all shared many characteristics. The narration fell flat at times when a greater sense of excitement would have been appropriate. That combined with mispronouncement of words reminded me that the book was not narrated by a professional human voice artist