The Key (95 page)

Thanks to our friends. You wonderful, patient people who have forgiven us for all the cancelled dates, and all the times that we have shown up at parties and then left after an hour. Thank you for putting up with us while we have been living in Engelsfors and unable to talk about anything else, and not really that either because of our fear for spoilers.

Many warm greetings and thanks to Fagersta, which is a much nicer place than Engelsfors.

Thanks to all our readers who have supported us and cheered us on during this time. Your enuthusiasm has given us so much energy and inspiration. It’s a bittersweet feeling for us to finish this trilogy, and we hope that we have given you something to dream further about.

We dedicate this book to you, especially to the teenagers.

One night, when a strange red moon fills the sky, six schoolgirls find themselves in an abandoned theme park, drawn there by a mysterious force. A student has just been found dead. Everyone suspects suicide. Everyone except them.

In that derelict fairground an ancient prophecy is revealed. They are The Chosen Ones, a group of witches bound together by power, one which could destroy them all. But they soon learn that despite their differences they need each other, in order to master the forces that have been awakened within them.

‘Rightly destined to be the next cult read.’ –
Sunday Telegraph

‘Impossible to put down’ –
QX

The Chosen Ones are about to start their second year in senior high school. All summer they have been waiting for the demons’ next move. But the threat comes from another direction, somewhere they could never have foreseen.

It becomes more and more obvious that something is very wrong in Engelsfors. The past is woven together with the present. The living meet the dead. The Chosen Ones are tied even closer together and are once again reminded that magic cannot make you happy or mend broken hearts ...

‘Rightly destined to be the next cult read.’ –
Sunday Telegraph

‘Impossible to put down’ –
QX

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Copyright © Sara B. Elfgren and Mats Strandberg, 2013

English translation © Anna Paterson 2015

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