The Astrid Lindgren Reading Group

I waited for my boyfriend for three hours at his birthday party. Sean Ziegler was supposed to show up dressed as the star of night. However, his secret lover, Josie Sullivan, called him to the hospital. She had pretended to sprain her ankle. There, she recorded a video of her and Sean kissing. In the heat of the moment, Sean stood up and pushed her against the door. But he was supposed to be paralyzed. “Sean, why haven’t you told Wendy that your legs are fine now?” “If she knows, she’ll pressure me to marry her. Seriously, who does she think she is? Wendy’s just a free maid. She’s not good enough to be my wife,” Sean said in a muffled voice. After that, he continued to kiss Josie intensely. Wearing the wedding dress I had designed, Josie looked provocatively into the camera. The video then ended with the sounds of them kissing. It turned out that Sean had been lying to me all along. I threw the cake that I made for him into the trash. Then, I texted my mom. [Mom, I’ll go on that blind date.]

At the celebration, the pampered heiress in Crownridge, Aveline Sage, confessed her love for me in front of the entire school. I turned her down flat. I was one of the Sage family's candidates—handpicked top students from every state—to improve their next generation's genes. In a few days, when the exam results came out, whoever earned the highest national score would become her fiance. For three years straight, I had been ranked first in the country. In my previous life, I achieved that top score. I got engaged to Aveline and became the envy of everyone—the son-in-law of Crownridge's most powerful family. But on the day of our engagement, her first love, Caspian Lorne, jumped off the top of the Sage Group building. His body was shattered beyond recognition. Aveline hired the best mortician to restore his face and placed him in a crystal coffin, where she slept beside him every night. During our honeymoon, she brought Caspian's body along, then kissed and clung to him right in front of me. When I confronted her, she looked at me with disgust. "The Sage family sponsored your education for twelve years. You knew Caspian and I were in love. Couldn't you let him win just once? You've been in first place for twelve years. What would it have cost you to lose? You ruined his future, ruined our love. You deserve to die." She drugged me, turned me into a fool with the mind of a three-year-old. I couldn't recognize my parents. I lost control of my own body. And I died in agony. … Then, I opened my eyes again, back on the morning of the exam. Last time, I beat Caspian by a single point. This time, I left an answer blank. Let him be the top scorer. Let him marry her. I hoped they grew old together, with plenty of children to match their love.

She rubbed her forehead profusely, "You do, you could walk away and save yourself now and I will be fine and I will understand." He glanced at her and his gaze locked and there was a level of sincerity in them, "If I save myself, who's going to save you?" ***** Jasmin Whyte was a twenty-six-year-old thief who ran away from her boyfriend after she caught him cheating, an excuse to finally leave her old life behind and start over, but when she discovered that she was two weeks pregnant for her him, she began back to her old ways. It wasn't long before she fell into trouble which was how she ran into billionaire Cainan Inferno and her life took an unexpected turn. Cainan Inferno was a thirty-three-year-old Billionaire and the CEO of The Inferno group which was the largest company in the country. He once had it all with money and looks, but his life took a sour turn after he lost his wife Neriah Gomez to cancer. Meeting Jasmin Whyte sparked the feeling he thought was long dead and he knew the only one capable of helping him move on from his late wife was her. He tracked her down and made her an offer she couldn't refuse while ignoring all the threats her past posed to his name, reputation and social status. All he asks in return was for her to steal his heart. Will she be able to do the one thing he asks or will she lose her heart in the process?

Jada Montgomery was a jovial, caring, loving and helpful young lady who tries to help everyone. Her first boyfriend was after college, they met at a small café in Chicago and stated dated for some times. She love him endlessly and will do anything for him but he broke her heart by sleeping with her best friend. She wasn't taking the break up to well, her parents suggested she go spend sometime with her sister Katie in Florida but still wasn't helping poor Jada. One night she ended up at a bar and drinking her pain away, she then met and stranger and had a one night stand which leads to alot of things she wasn't expecting. Read and enjoy..... More details in the chapters

"Apakah aku tidak cantik dan menggemaskan? Mengapa orang-orang kaya itu enggan membawaku pergi dengan surat adopsi?" -Rheshylla Inka Dayana. Rheshylla lelah dengan takdir buruk yang menimpanya. Dia kabur dari panti asuhan saat berusia tujuh belas tahun dan mulai pengembaraannya. Dia memiliki Lalisa sebagai sahabat. Namun, dia terlalu serakah hingga mendambakan kasih sayang seorang pria. Saat dia sudah mendapat kebahagiaan semu itu, Rheshylla justru kehilangan semuanya. Kemudian satu per satu rahasia terbongkar dan semakin menjerat. Apakah rahasia itu dan bagaimana Rheshylla keluar dari jeratannya?

Rasa sakit adalah hal yang paling dibenci oleh semua orang. Namun jika kita tidak bisa merasa sakit, apakah hidup kita akan bahagia? Rama Narayana Mahesa mengidap suatu penyakit langka yang membuatnya tidak bisa merasa sakit. Dia harus selalu berhati-hati dalam hidupnya karena ketidaksadaran akan rasa sakit itu bisa membunuhnya kapan saja. Lanaya Ekavira, seorang dokter yang memiliki rasa empati tinggi. Dia tidak bisa membiarkan orang terluka di depan matanya. Ketika takdir mempertemukan mereka, Dapatkah Naya membantu Rama untuk menyembuhkan luka tanpa rasa sakit?

Aminat and Hamidat had been a very closed friend from their middle school, loves each other very well and two of them were know by their parents. Few years later! An incident occurred when they were in two hundred level at Oxford university. A male student of Oxford university and in two hundred level was murdered at Chinese restaurant in US. This guy was a very closed friend to both of them and in the same department. Two of them started suspecting each other secretly about the incident happened and thinking may be it was one of them that was responsible for the murder. Two of them decided to leave the university on that same that the incident happened and decided to go and join detective school at different states and without know that it was the same thing they were thinking and planning for each other. When it was 2019. Two of them and their tearms were transferred to the US new detective headquarter and two of them were order to be working together as the team leader that they were. So this was how they met again. Another trouble begins between and different under secret investigation between themselves. It was through this process that two of them knows that none of them was responsible for murder. So now to of them must fish the murderer out.

The underworld is filled with different types of beings, beings far more powerful than the world can comprehend, the werewolves, the best of the canine species. The book talks about the Great Lycan, a powerful werewolf that would come as a redemption for the werewolves, but there’s also the King’s star, one born with supernatural powers and the greatest evil of all time. Lucas Fairchild is a young teenager who falls for a girl that is way out of his reach, what will he do when he figures out she’s not what he thought she was?

Story is about a young, intelligent, attractive and handsome lad who accidently met his true love. There are some twists in story, some romance, some secrets, and some suspense which will disclose in story but at the end his beloved will be in his destiny.

With every end, there is a new beginning. These are the unaltered cycles that have raged on for century after century. Each century had its collection of civilizations. Each one more advanced than the last, and yet none have survived the test of the Earth. This might as be well the last cycle that Mankind will ever see!