Warren Marquez

Wren Calder has spent her whole life being useful enough to survive. In Greywater Hollow, the river remembers everything. It took her mother, shaped her grief, and taught her one lesson: never be the one who needs saving. Then Soren Vale, the Alpha's son, comes to her ferry and feels the mate bond strike between them. And refuses her. He calls it duty. He calls it protection. He calls it what the pack needs.
Wren calls it betrayal. But the bond does not die. Worse, it leaves behind a secret no rejected mate can hide for long. She is carrying Soren's pup. In a pack where ancient law forbids an unmated female from bearing a "heard" child, Wren's pregnancy is not just scandalous. It is dangerous. The council will count her. The Regent will expose her. And the Alpha who once rejected her may be the only man powerful enough to save her baby.
But Soren has changed. When floodwaters rise, old laws crack, and Wren's secret is dragged into the light, Soren must choose between the pack he was born to lead and the mate he was too afraid to claim. This is a rejected mate second chance shifter romance filled with pregnancy secrets, emotional betrayal, pack politics, dangerous floods, fated bond tension, and an Alpha who must earn back the woman he once broke.
Read it before you miss the story of the rejected pregnant mate who stopped begging to belong and forced an Alpha, a pack, and an ancient law to choose her in daylight.