I liked Faithfull Wife Falls From Grace (Amazon) books 7 thru 8. He leaves her, hands her divorce papers, she pursues him, trying to get him not to hate her. Its messy and imperfect but it works for me. They end up together again, decide to have a baby together and THE STORY ENDS. Except that now there's a number 9 and from Part 4 above we know roughly how that goes--she sluts herself out, gets pregnant on purpose with a black guy's baby, does gangbangs with random dudes, etc etc. Not fucking interested.
I will disagree with this idea that Jen pursues Mike in Faithful Wife. Nothing changes in Jen's life after Mike divorces her. In fact, her life is going great. The only thing she does is fuck Mike once, then feed into his cuckold fantasies one weekend during Allie's wedding and lastly said she lied about not wanting to be married to Mike. That's her "pursue" of Mike. It literally happened what I said, Jen feeds into Mike's cuckold addiction and he forgets and forgives (and there is a lot Mike quickly forgives after one weekend and a chat with Allie). Meanwhile, she sacrificed absolutely nothing or risk nothing to get together with Mike. If Mike had said no, she gets back together with Scott and her life had carried on with zero downsides.
Ironically, the epilogue of book 8 would have served better as part of the story. All those conversations they had would have been the way in which Jen does the emotional labour to get together with Mike. Additionally, Mike acknowledging that his inability to respect his boundaries and walk away is a problem that he needs to address before even considering the idea of dealing with Jen again would have also helped.
I get that Pete Andrews is niche writer, and like I said, the cuckold part of his writing is superb. But outside of that, there is no real emotional payoffs for their characters' behaviours. Even in book 9, Jen isn't really handling the fallout of her divorce and reconciliation, all she does is feed into Mike's cuckolding and everything is fine. Meanwhile, Mike is not showing any growth as a character either. If anything, he becomes a single note character that only thinks about cuckolding after knowing how easily Jen can hide things from him and mask her behaviour so Mike doesn't suspect anything. That's why I said Book 9 is decent, but it's not really worth the read.
EDIT: I wanted to add that I referenced Life After We because I think that's Pete Andrew's best attempt at holding characters accountable and having Jen face the reckoning of her actions by watching Mike live the life she feared he could live without her. Jen's biggest insecurity in the "alpha series" or "main series," is the notion that she is holding Mike back with her attitude and jealousy. So that book is all her fears becoming real. It's also the closest I saw Mike grow as a person and partially understand that he isn't as worthless as he feels with Jen, and that he can actually be happy with or without her.
It's not a perfect book, but there was some tangible character growth. Moreover, at the end Jen is the one that is emotionally vulnerable enough to beg for forgiveness once she thinks Mike is set on moving on with Jasmine Kelly (someone who is a better match for Mike, imho). Lastly, the cuckolding and all the sex in that book is more logical as it weaves with them talking and processing their pain.