A Lesson Before Dying Audiobook Novels & Stories

I sustain brain damage from a car crash and end up with a memory akin to a goldfish. However, I remember my feelings for Caleb Warner for seven whole years. Things change when he abandons me on a mountain top after losing a bet with someone. He sneers and says, "Write this in your journal, Sadie. Consider it a lesson learned." It's wintertime, and it's freezing on top of the mountain. I almost die there. I later destroy everything that has to do with Caleb and allow my memories of him to disappear from my mind. … One night, someone by the name of Caleb Warner calls me. My boyfriend jealously pulls me close and asks, "Who's this?" I shake my head dazedly. "I don't know." The person on the other end of the line loses it when he hears my answer.

Eveone Allisa Benavidez, a lead guitar member on their band called Diamonds. Eveone was admired especially by her sister, no one can reach her sister's undying love, not her friends, not her younger sister, not their parents that treat her like an unwanted child; a treatment that triggered her thoughts and eventually invoked to Anxiety and Paranoia. Despite her condition she continued studying and pursuing medicine. However, along the way of her journey while walking with darkness, she crosses paths with Xavion Treyton Hernaez. A man who's unpredictable but hides sorrows and enigmas, a man who'll make her calm and safe from her darkest fear and nightmares. “Back then, death was my biggest fear. But now, losing someone like you is what I'm most afraid of.” She was surrounded with fear and he was clouded with sadness. Together, they will create memories and a lesson to engrave.

My son accidentally burns my husband's first love's hand. My husband cruelly breaks my son's hand to teach him a lesson. He's in so much pain that he can't see straight and falls into a lake. Blood dyes the water red. I hold him close as I sob and call my husband, pleading for help. My husband doesn't care, though. "It's just a broken hand—he'll be fine once it's set in a cast. He'll only do worse things in the future if he's not taught a lesson now!" Later, my son drowns in the lake because he's not rescued in time. My husband loses his mind when he sees his body. "How could he have died when he only had a broken hand?"

Diana was the daughter of two powerful alphas but one day when she was very young her parents were betrayed and killed by their own pack. Diana learnt a painful lesson that day, she learnt not to trust anyone. After many years on the run she finally finds a pack to take her in. She is a strong warrior and she has a bright future ahead of her but when she turns eighteen her life is turned upside down when she meets her mate, Elijah, her new alpha. Elijah has been looking for his mate for years, he doesn't care about the rumours about her past. He just wants her to accept him but accepting him would go against every instinct Diana has. Can she learn to trust again or will she reject him and go back on the run?

Maisse, a twenty four year old partial orphan finds herself in trouble when she is laid off her job and her other workplace sold to a Billionaire. She has to find a way to earn money to support her twin sisters through school. To add salt to the injury, her father tells her that he has arranged for her to get married to a strange man. Her father has already gotten a part of her bride price. Maisse is torn between running away from home and taking care of her sisters. She has to make a difficult choice. If she agrees to get married to someone she does not love, who will take care of her sisters, and how will she live with someone who bought her with cash. If she refused to get married and runs away, her father will turn to her little sisters. The billionaire on the other hand has to fulfill his grandfather's dying wish: To marry so as to access the inheritance. He falls in love with Maisse before the wedding day but Maisse flees after he makes a decision that affects her life and that of her sisters.

On the day before the competition, someone knocked me out when I was on the street before locking me up in a cage. For three days and three nights, I was chased around by a ferocious dog that kept biting and attacking me. Because of that, my wounds began leaking pus due to infection. Later on, five rich ladies had me locked up in a room. After chaining me up like a dog, they began tormenting me out of fun. When I finally got rescued, I had suffered from countless fractures. Even my internal organs went out of place from the beatings. My older sister, Claire Bowman, whom I'd been relying on since young, had me sent to the hospital immediately. There, I received a rabies vaccine. Meanwhile, my fiancee, Heather Vega, killed the mutt right in front of me in order to help me exact vengeance. She also stripped those ladies down and put them through a humiliating parade in public. After that, she kicked them off to the slums, where they became playthings for the beggars. But as I was lying on the hospital bed, I accidentally overheard Claire and Heather's conversation. "Do you think Christopher will resent us if he ever finds out that we're the ones who've set the dog and the ladies on him just so we can make Samuel the winner of the competition in order to repay him for his benevolence?" Heather's tone was unusually icy. "Christopher's just a replacement for Samuel. This is his fault for not knowing his place and insisting on fighting over the top spot with Samuel! I'm just teaching him a lesson! "Soon, I'll marry him in order to make it up to him. Then, I'll take care of him for the rest of his life. This is already enough." I did my best to hold my tears back while feeling my heart throb in pain. It turned out that the most important women in my life were also the ones who had ruined my lifelong dream. Since they didn't care about me at all, I chose to abandon them as well.

Love can be a cruel mistress. That's the lesson Regina learned when she and Richard, the Lycan king of her pack,met. When they met, there was an undeniable spark between them. Regina found herself drawn to Richard's commanding presence and fierce protectiveness. For the lonely Richard, she was the chance at a genuine connection and companionship he had longed for. But before their love could blossom, they faced numerous obstacles and challenges. Their pack got attacked by Charles, a ruthless hybrid who sought to claim Richard's throne for himself. He kidnaps Richard and imprisons his pack in an attempt to seize control. With her love and loyalty tested, Regina embarks on a perilous journey to rescue Richard and save their pack from Charles' tyranny. Little does she know, this mission will not only test her strength and determination but also force her to confront the dark secrets of her own past. Sneak peek "Mate..." My eyebrows shot up in surprise. I can't believe my ears; this was not part of my plan. What am I going to do now? "What? You want to be my queen but not my mate." I stared at Charles in disbelief, my mind racing to comprehend his words. "We don't need to mate for that to happen," I replied firmly, trying to hide the unease in my voice. "Yes, you're right." Charles was walking around his desk and sitting on his chair with a self-satisfied grin. "But you see, being my queen comes with certain expectations. And if you're not willing to fulfill them. Well, let's just say it won't end well for you." "Why do you want me to be your mate?" Charles leans back in his chair, a smirk playing on his lips. "Because you're the only one who can handle me."

(Prev Title Alpha Hades and The Red Rose) "On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?" Quote co. Meatloaf and Jim Cummings 1976/1977 from 'You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth.' Alpha Hades is an Alpha with a tragic past. He has crafted the persona of The Dark Alpha, to deter his rivals from attacking his pack. As a child, his parents and all previous pack members were wiped out in a rogue attack. He alone survived with the help of his wolf, Cerberus, and the assistance of a human girl called Lydia. But now, Cerberus is dying, and Hades is searching for Lydia in the hope that she is the key to saving him, as Cerberus is convinced that she is their mate. The Red Rose is a human huntress, who is feared by all wolves. She hunts rogues and single-handedly, deals out justice to them as she searches for the Rogue Alpha. He is the one responsible for all of the attacks on the packs, and for an attack on her when she was a child. What will happen when these two meet during a pack dispute? Will Hades find Lydia, before it is too late? And will The Red Rose be able to end, the Rogue Alpha's killing spree?

He was born with no wolf. No power, no love. He thought it made him powerless… Until a kiss from a fallen star rewrote his fate. Jaime Thorn had always been the greatest shame of his pack. Wolfless and considered as trash. But everything changes the night a strange, wounded boy collapses at his doorstep, whispering a single word before going unconscious “ Save me, Abiagan.” With skin like sunlight and his memories wiped off, the mysterious boy isn’t just beautiful. He is not human. As Jaime hides and heals him, something stirs in his soul. Jaime’s dormant wolf for the first time in years awakens. strange events started happening following the appearance of the mystery boy. Wolves start dying, the foreigners come back to earth, and dark secrets rise to the surface, Jaime realizes that the boy he’s hiding is more than a mystery. and the forbidden bond between them might be the only thing that could destroy everything or save the two worlds from tearing each other apart. The Betas heart: abiagan is a love story of two loves written on the stars…but some stars are doomed to fall.

A war . . " War does not determine who is right - only who is left. " A rivalry . . . " Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man. " A lesson learned . . . " Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way. " That maybe sometimes, just sometimes, things are better left alone than changed. ------ The werewolves and vampire ( all of whom are, naturally, ridiculously sexy ) have been at war for centuries. The only end to this war is death. Unfortunately, the vampire crown prince, AKA the teenage dirtbag of his clan, and the alpha werewolf's daughter, the not so sweet-heart of her pack, have been meeting in secret to fight and show off along with the other teenagers in their groups. In the process, their mutual hatred/little rivalry turn into something more. But it is forbidden, unheard of, taboo, and very much unnatural for that to happen, well according to their parents.