Valerie Swan knew she never belonged in the city. She only stayed in Seattle because of her job as Detective with SPD. But the dense forests, a misty solitude, and a quiet rustic charm is what called to her. So when her niece Bella moves in with her older brother Charlie and a new Detective role opens up with Forks Police Department, she can't turn down the opportunity. There's been a string of animal attacks that call for an expert hand in investigating. And with a population as close-knit as Forks, everyone is rattled. Val is determined to help her brother, Chief Swan, solve the case. Not long after her arrival, Bella nearly gets crushed by a car in the parking lot of her high school. She and Charlie rush from work to Forks Community Hospital. And that's when she meets him. Carlisle Cullen. The lead physician tending to her niece. There's something about him. Something irresistibly charming. It's a magnetic pull she can't shake. He's impossibly handsome and alluring in a way that unnerves her. And he can't seem to take his eyes off of her either. Not in a way that makes her feel seen, but in a way that makes her feel like prey. It's not a soft gaze he offers her. It's dark and hungry. Valerie quickly learns there is something brewing in the small town, begging to be unraveled.

Luna Marlowe is known for three things at Forks High: her unnerving brilliance, her refusal to shut up in the face of authority, and the time she brought a snake to the emergency room and told a surgeon to fix it. At seventeen, Luna is strange, sharp, and impossible to pin down - the kind of girl who quotes Sylvia Plath in math class and hides her grief beneath sarcasm and combat boots. After losing her sister, Luna stopped trying to fit into the world around her. She started noticing the cracks in it instead. The flickers in the mirror. The way time skips sometimes when certain people walk by. When she meets Dr. Carlisle Cullen - calm, impossibly kind, and far too composed for someone who looks barely older than her - she's drawn in, fast and dangerously. There's something not quite human about him. Something familiar. Like he's a question she's been asking her whole life. As Luna digs deeper, she uncovers secrets far older than Forks - about the Cullens, about herself, about her sisters fate. And the more she learns, the more impossible it becomes to pretend she's just a girl with a dead sister and a sharp tongue.