The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer

 

 

Bella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to give her mother time with her new husband. He travels a lot with his minor league team. She believes the time with her father will be good for them. It's been a long time since she's visited. However, the new kids, the Cullens, catch her eye. Especially the mysterious Edward. He is the youngest of the group and of course he seems to have taken a similar, if reluctant, interest in her.

It turns out that the boy who looks at her with golden eyes, is no boy at all; but a vampire with a hundred years of life experience. As they dance around each other, Bella realizes that she is in love with Edward and the feeling is mutual.

Now a danger neither of them predicted threatens to tear them apart, how far will Edward go to save Bella?

 

New Moon

It's Bella's birthday and she is not in the mood to be reminded of it when having a boyfriend who never ages. Alice has planned a party and the consequences of such a decision are staggaring. Jasper can't control himself when Bella cuts herself opening one of her many presents, Edward saves her from him only to injure her further. As they leave the party, Bella begs Edward in one last futile attempt to change her. After one last kiss, a sad 'I love you', and a feeling of dread; Bella watches him leave.

Days later, Edward returns and bids Bella goodbye. He states that he cannot endanger her futher by staying, says that they had 'fun', and asks her to promise him not to do anything dangerous or reckless while he's away. At least for Charlie's sake and he promises to never return.

Heartbroken, Bella slides into despair and collapses in the forest where Edward left her.

Defeated, Bella goes through the motions of every day life, frightening her father to the point where he states he's going to send her Jacksonville to be with her mother. Determined to stay in Forks, she calls up Jessica and goes to a movie.

Bella soon finds that dangerous activites bring back Edward's memory so she saves a couple of bikes before they get taken to the junk yard. Jacob is the only person she can turn to now while they repair the bikes together and he gives her lessons. He believes their relationship is turning into something more, Bella lets him down gently stating that she can't give him what he needs.

Soon after he disappears and she is left alone again, especially after he promises to never leave her as Edward had done.

Jacob returns later to tell her what has happened to him and whom their chasing. As it turns out, Victoria is seeking revenge on Edward. By killing Bella, she would have avenged her mate. So Jacob disappear's again to hunt for the redhead.

After a failed attempt at cliff diving, Bella is escorted back to the house only to run into Alice. After a lengthy conversation about how Bella was not trying to kill herself, a phone call, and an announcement that Edward is headed for the Volturi; Bella runs off with Alice to save Edward from the Volturi and himself.

How far will Bella go to save the man she loves?

After Edward's return, things are still a bit strained between he and Bella. He has one condition he wants fulfilled before he changes her. Edward has asked for her hand in marriage, Bella is reluctant to agree because of what has become of her parents relationship. To her, she doesn't need a piece of paper to prove how much she loves Edward; after all she is asking for him to change her.

However, something more pressing is on the horizon. Series' of killings begin happening in Seattle, the Cullens begin to worry about the Volturi coming to see that Bella has yet to be changed. Carlisle and Jasper recognize the murders as the work of newborn vampires. Bella immediately becomes worried for her father since he is investigating and looking for a missing person. Riley Biers.

As the mystery begins to unfold and both the Cullens and the wolves struggle to protect her, Bella is caught in a tough decision between who she loves more. Jacob admits his feelings, tries to get her to admit what she's hiding inside, all the while the newborns continue to grow in numbers. A war is coming.

Bella makes her decision and finally says yes to Edward's proposal, however she adds her own condition. She wants him to make love to her while she's still human, he reluctantly agrees...

 

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs.

Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life-first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse-seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever?