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After years of abuse in England, seventeen-year-old Caleb White escapes to Forks, Washington, determined to disappear and rebuild his life far from everything that hurt him. He expects loneliness, not Bella Swan-a girl carrying wounds of her own. Their immediate recognition develops into an intense, platonic soulmate bond, and together they begin learning how to survive, trust, and feel safe again.
Their fragile new life becomes complicated when they encounter the mysterious Cullen family, including Damon Cullen, whose attention awakens feelings Caleb believed he would never experience. As Caleb and Bella are drawn into the Cullens' dangerous supernatural world, love, betrayal, and abandonment force them to confront the difference between being wanted and being truly safe.
This is a story about two wounded teenagers finding themselves-not by becoming immortal or returning to the people who broke them, but by choosing humanity, healing, and a future they create together