Bella, a recent widow, is filled with grief at the loss of her husband. Moreover, she has to deal with a mother-in-law who always had a grudge against her and a brother-in-law who despised her, or so she thought. What happens when Edward, her brother-in-law, turns out to be the only person who can actually save her? And why is he so willing to do it?

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES VERY OWN DAMON AND STEFAN SALVATORE MEET WITH BELLA AND THE CULLENS. TANYA PLANS A WAY TO MAKE EDWARD HERS, WHILE BELLA REMEMBERS SOMETHING THAT CONNECTS HER TO DAMON AND STEFAN. (BELLA'S A VAMPIRE)

After the death of both of her parents, Bella is left to the care of supposed friends of the family. But the longer she stays in their home, the more sinister events become. Family secrets leave her locked behind closed doors, both literally and metaphorically. And her one long-time ally has suddenly turned against her, no longer willing to stand between Bella and her abusive foster father.Plagued by the memories of her mother's death and remembrances of the kind young doctor who, while caring for her mother in her last days, gently removed eight-year-old Bella from her dead mother's arms on the worst morning of Bella's life, she misses the love of her parents, especially after being blamed for the death of her foster mother and the crippling injuries of her foster father. Now all of the people she has loved are now dead...except one. But he now callously joins in her abuse, seeming to take pleasure from her pain. Pinned within the four walls of her small bedroom, Bella yearns to flutter freely, to live a real life once again. Will she ever be rescued from her abusers?