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The Lone Wolf's Rejected Mate: The Five Packs, Book 3
by Cate C. Wells
About this book
After one night, he walked away. He’s going to live to regret it.
Mari
Growing up alone in Quarry Pack, I always dreamed of a mate who’d sweep me off my feet and carry me away to our very own cottage that we’d fill with pups and love and laughter. A real family.
What I got?
Wham, bam, thank you ma’am.
The pack sees Darragh Ryan as a tortured hero with a dark past, protecting the pack from afar.
I know better. He’s a jerk who can’t deal with people so he’s chosen to live in the wilderness and—I don’t know—brood. One thing I do know is that he doesn’t get to reject me.
I reject him.
Darragh
Mari doesn’t understand what she doesn’t know. She’s naïve, soft, and way too young and sweet for a life of self-imposed exile.
She’s a grown female who sits in trees, reading books, and wears party dresses to garden. Everything she owns is pink. Her wolf is probably pink.
She can’t handle the real world, and she sure can’t handle my wolf. No one can.
One day, she’ll understand why I won’t claim her, and she might not thank me, but she should.
Because my wolf? Given half a chance, he’d tear her apart.
The Lone Wolf’s Rejected Mate is the third novel in The Five Packs series, but it can be listened to as a stand-alone. No cheating. HEA guaranteed. Intended for adult listeners only.
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
- B0CLW23NZG
Reader Reviews
December 27, 2022
The best one yet! Cate is the absolute bomb, she is beyond compare! Darragh has been a background character; the lone wolf, the unstable wolf. Mari has been left behind, forgotten, neglected for most of her life. Finding out that Darragh is her mate should have been a joyous occasion. It was, for a few brief moments until he ran as far as he could get from her without completing the mating ritual. So much is left unsaid, with Mari ignoring the bond and her heart and soul in tatters. Several...
April 17, 2025
The Lone Wolf’s Rejected Mate was so freaking good and I had a great time reading it. As soon as I started, I was immediately invested. It was fast-paced, exciting, and super entertaining. I loved learning about Darragh and Mari and watching these two complicated shifters come together. I was hooked right from the start! Darragh and Mari had a heck of a ride. There’s a pull between them, but also an age difference, and Darragh has some issues, so he tried to stay away. Once they knew they were...
January 3, 2023
Cate C Wells continues to write characters and scenarios that I think won't work for me and yet her writing is so skilled, I love them. One of the things that I love about this series is that for all the 'Alpha' themes that show up in wolf-shifter stories, it's truly the female leads that are the bad@ss heroes. I really enjoyed how she spent the majority of the first half of the book fleshing out Mari's background and growth over the previous 4 years. And yet throughout, she's dropping enough...
October 4, 2025
Definitely liked the mmc in this one. Darragh ryan is a se3y name and he is all manly hunter vibes. Just a delish character. Story was going pretty ok until it took a dark turn which troubled me quite a bit. Definitely wasnt expecting that turn of events. Not to mention the violence and the scenes of mmc and fmc in the container while the fmc is nude the whole time? I'm not sure why she at least cudnt be partially covered with something and you have all those males just staring? Exhibitionism...
March 14, 2026
Really been enjoying this series- but this book is the peak so far. Love Darragh to pieces. Mari can be annoying, but that was to be expected- she’s about 20 years younger than Darragh. She’s young and sheltered, so of course she’s immature. That being said, she’s also traumatized and has abandonment issues… BEFORE Darragh abandons her. She was always valid in her feelings, she just didn’t deal with her feelings the right way. Again, very understandable. As for Darragh, his intentions were...
