I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure I was dreaming. Of course, she had Phil now, so the bills would probably get paid, there would be food in the refrigerator, gas in her car, and someone to call when she got lost, but still… New Moon How could I leave my loving, erratic, harebrained mother to fend for herself? I felt a spasm of panic as I stared at her wide, childlike eyes. My mom looks like me, except with short hair and laugh lines.
“Bella,” my mom said to be – the last of a thousand times before I got on the plane. It was to Forks that I now exiled myself- an action. That was the year I finally put my foot down these past three summers, my dad, Charlie, vacationed with me in California for two weeks instead. It was in this town that I’d been compelled to spend a month every summer until I was fourteen. It was from this town and its gloomy, omnipresent shade that my mother escaped with me when I was only a few months old. It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place in the United States of America. In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds. I was wearing my favorite shirt-sleeveless, white eyelet lace I was wearing it as a farewell gesture. It was seventy-five degrees in Phoenix, the sky a perfect, cloudless blue.
"People do not want to just read Meyer's books they want to climb inside them and live there." - Time "A literary phenomenon.My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down. It's here! #1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with the highly anticipated companion, Midnight Sun: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires.
The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife - between desire and danger. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. Fall in love with the addictive, suspenseful love story between a teenage girl and a vampire with the book that sparked a "literary phenomenon" and redefined romance for a generation (New York Times).
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