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Carlise Cullen met Adelaide Harper in 1936, in a bookshop. And his life was changed forever.
Unlike Bella, Adelaide was quite content with her human life. And in 1989, she passed away, having lived a fulfilled and happy life with the man she loved beyond reason and the children she cared for as her own.
But she leaves behind her a broken man. With her absence, Carlise is left forever with a piece of himself missing. It is the love he has for his family that keeps him going, and he manages to go on despite the constant ache of loss.
Almost 20 years later, in the small town of Forks, a young woman stumbles into the hospital and brings with her a different kind of ache. Because that woman is the very embodiment of Carlise's late wife. Not only in appearance, but down to every little habit, every little detail.
He knows it should be impossible. That he should be sceptical. But if the universe has truly given him a second chance to be with her, he refuses to take it for granted. He refuses to lose a single moment with her.
But things aren't quite as easy as they once were.
(I love her but Esme just doesn't exist in this book)