Books Read Before Die

The first time he met her, he misunderstood her, thinking that she was the type of woman who only knew about fame and money, and also accidentally "ate" her unexpectedly. - The second time we met, he was the cold general manager, and she was his 24-hour personal secretary. Even though she knew his name on the outside, her heart was still given to him when. - Carwyn Hiddleston, CEO of the corporation, handsome, outstanding talent. Because once he failed in love and was betrayed by the person he loved the most, he never believed in love again, since he brought himself into life, only cold and indifferent. However, she just kissed him once and made his heart flutter for the first time, his heart that had been frozen for so long suddenly melted away. - She appeared in front of him again but became his secretary. Can her presence warm his heart and make him love again? Can she have his love?

I paid Curtis Robinett 200 thousand dollars a month to be a standby blood donor. My fiancée, Eden May, thought it was a waste of money. So she reassigned him to work part-time as her personal assistant instead. When Curtis accidentally submitted my marriage license appointment as a divorce filing for the 99th time, I kicked open Eden's office door. She didn't even look up. "We're in no rush to get married anyway," she said calmly. "Curtis is just careless. That's how he's always been." Later, in the emergency room, I called Eden while doctors rushed around me, my throat shredded from yelling. "Where's my emergency medical kit?" I rasped. "What did you do with it?" Curtis answered instead, his voice warm and smug. "You mean the expensive leather bag you kept in the cabinet? I swapped it out for a large party snack box. It holds everything just fine, and honestly, it looks a lot more cheerful. "Ms. May's brother and sister-in-law are both career soldiers. Your bag didn't really match that image, so I thought this would be more appropriate." My vision dimmed. My hands shook as I told Curtis to come donate blood. Eden laughed softly and cut in, "Stop pretending you're anemic just to get attention. If you're actually sick, deal with it. You're at the hospital; I think the doctors are fully capable of keeping you alive. Curtis is afraid of needles. He's not coming." Then, she hung up. She didn't appear until the surgical lights finally went dark. "Curtis had me bring you chocolate milk," she said. "It's good for recovery. It's not that he didn't want to help. He just faints at the sight of blood." She placed a settlement waiver on my bed. "I was the one who told him not to come. That 200-thousand-dollar monthly salary is his pay as my assistant. It has nothing to do with you. You didn't have to call the police for that. Sign this, and I'll go get the marriage license with you." I thought of what I had just seen in the operating room. Eden's brother, Harvey May, was bleeding out on the operating table, waiting for a lifesaving drug that never came. In the final moments of surgery, he could do nothing but lie there and die. I looked at her and said evenly, "You're the immediate family. It's not my place to sign that."

The doctor told me I had 72 hours left, unless I got access to the newest experimental treatment. However, there was only one slot available, and my husband Bowen Liddell gave it to my sister Yvonne Lawson instead. "Her kidney failure is more critical," he said. I nodded and swallowed the white pills that would only speed up my death. In the time I had left, I got a lot done. The lawyer's hand trembled as he passed me the documents. "Are you sure you want to transfer the two billion dollars in shares?" I replied, "Yes. Give them to Yvonne." My daughter, Candice Liddell, was giggling in Yvonne's arms. "Mommy Yvonne bought me a new dress!" I said, "It looks beautiful. Make sure you always listen to Mommy Yvonne, okay?" The art gallery I built from the ground up now had Yvonne's name on the sign. "You're too kind, Kathy," she said, crying. I told her, "You'll run it even better than I ever did." I even signed all my parents' trust fund away. That was when Bowen finally gave me his first genuine smile in years. "Kathleen, you've changed. You're not so aggressive anymore... You're beautiful like this." Indeed. This dying version of me finally became the 'perfect Kathleen Sullivan' in their eyes—obedient, generous, and no longer argumentative. The 72-hour countdown had already begun, and I couldn't help but wonder what they would remember when my heart stopped for good. The good wife who 'finally learned to let go', or the woman who completed her revenge by dying?

„Ich lehne dich ab, Marian Storm!“ Das waren Worte, die sie niemals von dem Alpha-Erben ihres Vaters erwartet hätte. Und schon gar nicht bei der Neujahrsfeier vor den Augen der gesamten Meute. Marian verließ das Gelände der Meute, das drei Jahre lang ihr Gefängnis gewesen war, mit gebrochenem Herzen und fest entschlossen, niemals zurückzukehren. Aber sie wusste, dass sie es tun würde, dass sie es musste. Nach ihrer Zurückweisung war der einzige Wunsch, der ihr noch blieb, den Alpha zu töten, der den Rudel ihres Vaters übernommen hatte. Wenn ihr das nicht gelänge, würde sie den Rudel verlassen und eine Einzelgängerin werden. Sie kehrt zu Weihnachten nach Hause zurück, um an der Gedenkfeier für ihre verstorbene Familie teilzunehmen. Am Heiligabend, während der Mistelzeremonie des Rudels, erhält sie ein Geschenk, das sie nie erwartet hätte, ein Geschenk, das niemand wollte – Reyland, den leiblichen Sohn des Alphas, den sie zu töten geschworen hat. Würde dieses Geschenk der Mondgöttin Marian helfen, ihren Wunsch zu erfüllen, ihr Rudel zurückzugewinnen, oder würde es neue Leidenschaften in ihrem gebrochenen Herzen wecken und sie stattdessen verzehren?

Elena Carter once had everything, a brilliant career, a respected name in medical research, and a family she believed was worth sacrificing everything for. As a pioneering pediatric immunologist, she was on the verge of a breakthrough that could save thousands of children suffering from a rare and deadly genetic disorder. But for love, she walked away from it all… choosing to become a wife, a mother to a fragile child who depended on her for survival. She believed her sacrifice meant something. However, she was wrong. Her husband, Marcus Thorne, lies a truth Elena never dared to see, a truth that begins to unravel the night a stranger sends her a message that changes everything. What starts as suspicion soon turns into something more devastating than betrayal. It isn’t just about another woman. It’s about stolen time. Broken promises. A decision that will cost Elena more than she ever imagined. When tragedy strikes and the truth finally surfaces, Elena is forced to confront a reality so cruel it shatters everything she once believed in love, loyalty, the man she trusted with her life. With nothing left to hold her back, she walks away. But she doesn’t leave empty-handed. She takes with her the one thing that still matters to her. Years later, she returns… no longer the woman he once overlooked, but a force the world cannot ignore. A doctor who saves lives. A woman who rebuilt herself from ashes. Fate brings them face to face again Marcus is left with a truth he can no longer escape: The woman he once took for granted… Is now the only one who can save what he holds dear. But some losses don’t fade. Some wounds don’t heal. And this time. Elena Carter may choose herself.

Ich war mit dem Wolfsgift Silbermondkraut infiziert, das sich langsam im Körper ausbreitete, und stand kurz vor dem Tod. Aber das einzige Allheilmittel, das mich retten konnte, wurde von meinem Gefährten Leo gekauft und meiner Stiefschwester Jane geschenkt. Weil er dachte, ich würde meine Krankheit nur vortäuschen. Ich gab die konservative Behandlung auf und nahm starke Schmerzmittel. Der Preis dafür war, dass meine Organe nach drei Tagen versagten und ich letztendlich starb. In jenen drei Tagen vor meinem Tod gab ich alles auf. Als ich Jane die von mir eigenhändig gegründete Pelzfabrik schenkte, lobten mich meine Eltern dafür, wie sehr ich doch meine Schwester liebte. Als ich vorschlug, die Gefährtenbindung aufzulösen, lobte mich Leo dafür, dass ich endlich vernünftig geworden war. Als ich meine Tochter bat, Jane von nun an „Mama“ zu nennen, sagte sie glücklich, dass ihre Mama Jane sie sowieso immer am besten behandelt hatte. Als ich Jane meine gesamten Ersparnisse übertrug, bemerkte meine Familie nichts Ungewöhnliches, sondern war nur zufrieden mit meinem Verhalten: „Endlich ist Anna nicht mehr so bösartig.“ Ich wusste nicht, ob sie es nach meinem Tod bereuen würden.

Entering a one-sided love isn't easy, especially if the relationship you have is only for a business. "Why do you have to be alive?" My lips loosened up as I sensed the bitterness in his voice. It is as if he hates my existence so much that he has to do something for me to be gone already. "Why do you even need to be existed in this fucking world if you're just going to ruin my life!" Ciara Hilvano is an innocent and martyr wife who always gets violated by her husband and makes her feel that she's an unwanted wife. This guy really doesn't have any idea that the girl he was hurting and almost killed everyday was secretly suffering from the cancer in heart. The time came when Ciara's life was in big trouble. She almost died because someone tried to threaten her life. What if Ciara can no longer cope with the challenges and trials of her life? What if she just let her own death fetch her? Will Tyron regret all the things he did to Ciara? What if Ciara dies? Will he cry?

Er ist verflucht. Sie ist eine Sklavin. Ihre verbotene Bindung wird entweder ihre Welt retten oder sie in Brand setzen. Caeser Varyn, der beeindruckende Alpha-König, ist eine Figur der Angst, sein Blut ist von einem Fluch befleckt, der jeden Partner beansprucht hat, den die Mondgöttin ihm gegeben hat. Seine Existenz ist eine einsame Last verdrehter Macht, bis eine einzige, zufällige Berührung alles verändert. Ava ist ein Geist im königlichen Palast - ein unsichtbares Sklavenmädchen mit einer stillen Anmut und einer verborgenen Macht. Als das paarungszeichen der Mondgöttin an ihrem Handgelenk erscheint, zerschmettert Caeser alte Gesetze und beansprucht sie als seine eigene. Ihre verbotene Vereinigung entfacht einen Feuersturm, der sie zwingt, aus dem brennenden Palast und der Empörung des Rudels zu fliehen. Es stellte sich heraus, dass sie von der Mondgöttin begabt ist, und um zu überleben, muss Ava die Macht beherrschen, von der sie nie wusste, dass sie sie besitzt, die Verräter, die sie umgeben, aufdecken und einen Weg finden, den Ahnenfluch zu brechen. Wenn sie scheitert, wird ihre Liebe verzehrt und ihre Welt wird in die dunkle Macht eines verdorbenen Gottes fallen.

Cara Nelson ist die Tochter zweier Wächter. Ihre Mutter gab ihr Leben, um die Luna des Rudels sowie deren kleinen Sohn Rik, den künftigen Alpha, zu retten. Ihr Vater wurde gelähmt, als er den Alpha des Rudels beschützte. Cara war dazu bestimmt, Riks Wächterin zu werden, wenn er das Amt des Alphas übernimmt. Doch Rik wusste nicht einmal, wer sie war. Als der Alpha eines Nachbarrudels den Wunsch äußerte, sie zu seiner Gefährtin zu machen, geriet Cara zwischen die Fronten der beiden Alphas. Beide wollten sie als ihre Luna – aber geschah das nur, weil sie eine Wächterin war, die deren Rudel stärken konnte? Während sie zwischen ihrer Anziehung zu den beiden Alphas schwankte, erkannte Cara, dass ihr Schicksal nicht so klar war, wie sie gedacht hatte. Anders als bei ihren Eltern, deren Wölfe die Seelen wiedergeborener Wächter in sich getragen hatten, erfuhr Cara, dass sie und ihre Wölfin die Einzigen in der Geschichte waren, die als Wächter geboren worden waren. Als ein dritter Bewerber um Cara sie gewaltsam zu seiner Luna machen wollte, mussten ihre Alphas sie retten, bevor es zu spät war. Cara war dazu bestimmt, eine Luna zu werden – doch würde es durch Zwang geschehen, durch Schicksal, oder würde sie ihre eigene Entscheidung treffen? Dies ist das erste Buch der Wächter-Trilogie.

To save Hugh, I took the hit—literally. The kidnappers beat me so bad I ended up with a brain hemorrhage. My mind? Stuck at thirteen. Hugh, all guilt and promises, said, "Wenna, I'll protect you forever." And he did. He watched over me. When the house caught fire, he threw himself over me, took the burns, didn't flinch. Then came his oh-so-perfect foster sister. "Mia's not into... slow people. Maybe you should live next door," he said. And my son? The one I nearly died bringing into the world? "Stupid woman! You embarrass me and Dad. You're nothing like Aunt Mia—she's smart and pretty. If it weren't for you, she could've been my mom. You should just die!" To play hero for Mia, my son shoved me into the street. A truck did the rest. When I opened my eyes, I was back on the day Hugh proposed. This time? I wasn't here for his pity. And I sure as hell wasn't marrying him.