"The wedding was over. Not postponed. Finished. I traded the white silk for a maroon flannel and the marble silence for the roar of an engine. I escaped the ice, but I'm still searching for the fire."

When a mountain biology trip ends in a terrifying kidnapping, Bella is forced to confront the dark side of Edward Cullen while Jacob is mysteriously distracted by a stranger. Desperate to escape their suffocating control, she begins sneaking out to see a alluring boy named Riley at a local lake. But introducing herself to his mother pulls Bella straight into a malicious plot that threatens to shatter her world completely.